The Red Journey blood donation campaign 2019 has received over 85,000 units of blood via 265 locations, the organising board told a conference reviewing its result in Hanoi on July 27.

The Quang Binh – Khammoune friendship youth meeting took place in the central province of Quang Binh on July 25-27.

The third Samsung Hope School in Vietnam will be constructed in Hiep Hoa district in the northern province of Bac Giang to benefit more than 300 poor local pupils at primary and secondary levels.

More than 400 domestic and foreign delegates discussed e-Government at a national seminar in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on July 26.

The seventh Red Journey blood donation campaign 2019 opened in Hanoi on July 26 with a series of activities.

Phu Quoc Express Company on July 26 launched Vietnam’s largest twin-body, double-decker speedboat from Tran De port in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang to Con Dao Island in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

The World Bank-funded Program for Results (PforR) of rural water supply and sanitation in eight Red River Delta provinces has so far benefited 1.4 million residents.

Varous activities have been held across Vietnam over the past few days to express gratitude to martyrs, war invalids and other revolution contributors ahead of the 72nd War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27).

The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai held a ceremony at An Khe town’s martyr cemetery on July 26 to rebury remains of 61 martyrs who sacrificed their lives during the resistance war against the US.

An aid from Taipei’s Rotary Club was presented to the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA)’s Ba Ria-Vung Tau province chapter on July 26.

A delegation from the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia and other representative offices of Vietnam in Phnom Penh led by Ambassador Vu Quang Minh offered incense to martyrs at the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monument on July 26 on the occasion of the 72nd Day of War Invalids and Martyrs (July 27).

An incense offering ceremony was held in commemoration of heroes and martyrs at the Laos-Vietnam Combative Alliance monument in Keun village of Thoulakhom district of Vientiane, on the occasion of 72nd War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27).

As many as 5,458 communes across the country have been recogised as new-style rural areas so far this year, up 620 compared to the end of 2018, according to the Central Coordination Office on New Rural Development.

A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development led by Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong on July 25 inspected fish farming and fishing activities as well as coastal erosion in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.