The new government of Thailand is expected to decide the fate of the 300 THB (8.69 USD) tourism fee, which remains uncertain because of roadblocks from unclear implementation.
A delegation led by Deputy Secretary of Dak Nong provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Committee Ho Van Muoi on April 3 visited Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province on the occasion of the Khmer people's Chol Chnam Thmay (traditional new year) festival.
The Vietnamese Party, State and people appreciate its faithful relationship with fraternal Lao counterparts in the past struggle for national liberation and current national development, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said.
Cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) technology is a suitable direction for further developing relations between Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s member nations, including Vietnam, Vice-President for International Relations at Far Eastern Federal University of Russia Yevgeny Vlasov has said.
National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue’s visits to the Republic of Korea (RoK) and India from December 12-19 were a success, contributing to the implementation of the country’s external relations policies and creating a new stature for Vietnam to boost post-pandemic socio-economic recovery and development, stated Chairman of the NA Committee for External Relations Vu Hai Ha.
The death toll from Typhoon Rai - the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year - has risen to at least 75, according to official statistics announced by local authorities on December 19.
Vietnam’s foreign trade surged 22.3 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of this year to exceed 599.1 billion USD, according to the General Statistics Office.
Footwear exports this year are unlikely to hit the target of 24 billion USD because of the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
At least 160,000 residents in Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua, would vote in the general election on April 18 following several logistical glitches on the general election day.
Malaysia and Pakistan on March 23 signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) on five cooperation projects aimed to strengthen trade cooperation between the two countries.
US negotiators are no longer demanding the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) agree to disclose a full accounting of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes as part of the second summit between US President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong-un, NBC News quoted incumbent and former US officials as saying.
The Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex), the largest textile maker in the country, expects its export turnover to rise up to 8 percent in 2019, the group said at a press conference on December 27.
Fourteen winners of the annual Good Books Awards were announced at a ceremony held by the Institute of Education (IRED), Phan Chau Trinh Fund and OpenEdu Initiative in Ho Chi Minh City on September 10.
Vietnam's Centre for Gender Studies and Women's Leadership (GeLead) and the Australian government-funded Vietnam-Australia Human Resource DevelopmentPartnership (Aus4Skills) signed an agreement on promoting gender equality in Hanoi on September 7.
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