Vietnamese soldiers and staff members of level-2 field hospital No.3 in South Sudan on Friday planted a “Neu” tree (New Year’s tree) to kick off the traditional Lunar New Year celebration. A “Neu” tree is an extremely tall bamboo tree erected in front of Vietnamese houses typically for the New Year. According to folk traditions,…
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Politburo member Truong Thi Mai on Thursday visited local authorities of Dien Bien province on the threshold of the Lunar New Year festival (Tet). Ms. Mai, who is the Party Central Committee’s Organization Commission Chief asked Dien Bien to try harder to renew its poverty reduction policies to improve the living conditions of local people,…
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Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has applauded achievements made by cadres and civil servants of the Party Central Committee Office in advising and serving the leadership of the Party Central Committee, Politburo, and Secretariat. Mr. Trong made the statement at Friday’s meeting to mark the Lunar New Year 2022 and the 92nd anniversary of the…
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A ceremony this week marked the start of Tesa’s new production base in the DEEP C Industrial Zone of Hai Phong. The company has invested 61 million USD in a 70,000-square-meter plant to create new production capacity in Asia, one of the world’s fastest-growing markets. This is part of Tesa’s strategy to expand its local…
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony on Friday to offer “banh tet” (round glutinous rice cakes) and specialty fruits to the Hung Kings, Vietnam’s legendary founders, at Thuong (Upper) Temple at the National Historical and Cultural Park in Thu Duc city. 18 pairs of cakes were made by artisans using the finest…
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South Korea, the US, and Japan are in consultations over an in-person meeting of their foreign ministers next month in Hawaii, an informed source said Thursday, with North Korea likely to top the agenda. If held, it will be the first such meeting since Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took office in October. The top diplomats…
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Brexit hurt two-way trade between the EU and Britain, with the auto, textile, and aviation sectors taking the worst hit, the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance said Thursday. The Ministry released data on the sidelines of an EU ministers meeting in Paris to review the fallout from Britain’s departure from the bloc a…
