French experts shared Paris’s experience in air quality management at a seminar in Hanoi on October 12.

Vietnamese language and culture have been officially included in the teaching programme of Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3 in France’s Occitanie region as part of cooperation between the university and the University of Languages and International Studies under the Vietnam National University – Hanoi.

Vietnam is the pillar of the Francophone (French-speaking) community in Asia, according to Senator Catherine Deroche, head of the France-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group of the Senate of France.

Vietnam’s culture, landscape, and cuisine are being promoted at the Metz International Fair, which opened in Moselle province, France, on September 27.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong on September 27 sent a message of condolences to French President Emmanuel Macron over the passing of ex-President Jacques Chirac.

Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Hung received visiting Senator Catherine Deroche, head of the France – Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group of the French Senate, on September 25.

Vietnamese epic The Tale of Kieu will be performed by French artists for the first time in Hanoi on September 25.

A delegation of National Assembly deputies from Ho Chi Minh City began a working visit to France on September 16.

Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper has launched a booth at the 84th Fête de l'Humanité, an annual festival of French newspaper L’Humanité, which is underway at La Courneuve Park in the suburds of Paris.

Nearly 600 tonnes of malt from France’s central Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region will be shipped weekly to Vietnam via a new waterway route linking an inland port in the French department of Yonne with Cai Mep seaport in Ho Chi Minh City.

France, Germany and the UK on August 29 released a joint statement expressing their concern about the situation in the South China Sea( known as East Sea in Vietnam) which they said could lead to insecurity and instability in the region.​

National Secretary of the French Communist Party (FCP) Fabien Roussel held talks with head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations Hoang Binh Quan in Hanoi on July 22.

Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of the Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on July 21 for a visiting delegation from the French Communist Party led by its National Secretary Fabien Roussel.

Politburo member, Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan received visiting National Secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) Fabien Roussel on July 21.