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Vietnam has for the first time surpassed India and Thailand to become the largest rice exporter to Singapore, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore.

Traditional professions were a unique cultural feature of ancient Hanoi. In order to preserve this feature, the Management Board of Hoan Kiem Lake and Hanoi’s Old Quarter have held a series of cultural activities with the theme “Preserving ancient professions on the streets”, focusing on introducing Vietnamese traditional medicine on Lan Ong Street.

Vietnam exported more than 2.1 million tons of rice worth nearly 1.4 billion during the first quarter of the year, representing an increase of about 42% against the same period from last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

On April 19, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) officially launched a special news website on the Dien Bien Phu Victory.

A photo exhibition on Vietnam’s seas and islands themed “Fatherland by the waves” opened in the Lao capital city of Vientiane on April 18.