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APEC’s Expert Group on Illegal Logging and Associated Trade (EGILAT) opened their meeting on February 20, as part of the first Senior Officials’ Meeting of APEC (SOM-1).

Khanh Hoa is holding several activities to introduce the beauty of its landscapes and people to int'l delegates to the APEC First Senior Officials' Meeting in Nha Trang city from Feb 18 – Mar 3.

More than 170 domestic and international reporters have registered to report news at SOM 1 and related meetings scheduled for February 18-March 3 in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province.

Fresh flowers, colourful decorations and the APEC logo can be seen everywhere these days in Nha Trang city, as the first official event in 2017 of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is set to open here on February 18.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved investment of Lotus Cam Ranh Golf Course project in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa.

The Ministry of Health will release 1 million to 1.4 million of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in four wards in Nha Trang city in an effort to reduce the number of incidences of dengue fever and Zika virus infections.

More than 500 athletes will compete in the Challenge Vietnam triathlon in the coastal city of Nha Trang, the central province of Khanh Hoa on August 27.

Authorities of the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa are taking measures to protect and restore the maritime ecosystem in lagoons and bays, focusing on forming marine preservation areas.

New Year wishes were sent to residents and soldiers in the Truong Sa (Spratly) island district via a live television programme organised by Khanh Hoa province authorities on January 24.

The first-phase construction of a memorial site dedicated to 64 navy soldiers who died while protecting Gac Ma island in Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago in 1988, is scheduled for completion in March.

A project to use foreign teachers for teaching English will be piloted at a number of primary schools in the central province of Khanh Hoa from February.

The Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa sea festival 2017, the eighth of its kind, will take place in the south central province of Khanh Hoa on June 10-13, with nearly 50 social, cultural and sport activities.

President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) Bui Van Cuong on December 24 visited and handed over financial aid worth 500 million VND (22,000 USD) to flood-hit people in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

Vietnam will open its first ever astronomical observatory in Nha Trang next March, according to the Vietnam National Satellite Centre (VNSC).