Young officers of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and their peers from the Armed Forces of Myanmar gathered together at a seminar in Hanoi on September 18, which aims to promote exchange and experience sharing between the two sides.

Leaders of the Vietnam Supreme People’s Court (VSPC) had a working session with a visiting delegation from the Supreme People’s Court of China in Ho Chi Minh City on September 18 to seek ways to increase professional exchange.

The ASOCIO Smart City Summit 2018, themed “Creating Smarter City and Securer City by Digital Solutions,” kicked off in Hanoi on September 18.

A Vietnam tourism promotion programme was held in Toronto on September 17 night, wrapping up the Vietnamese Culture Week in Canada from September 11-17.

Vietnam’s tangible and intangible cultural heritages are a key part of the country’s tourism, so the preservation of the heritages is crucial for sustainable tourism development.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS)’s entry to the ASEAN Social Security Association (ASSA) has brought about important and practical benefits, improving Vietnam’s social and health insurance systems via acquiring experience and lessons on management and policy enforcement.

Vice President and Secretary General of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Hau A Lenh has affirmed that VFF highly values work with the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) to share experience in environmental protection, climate change response and industrial and household waste treatment.

The Elderly People’s Association of Da Nang has taken numerous activities, aimed at caring for local elderly people.

The People’s Committee of southern Bac Lieu province and the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) held a ceremony on September 17 to hand over two primary schools and 141 houses for local policy beneficiaries and people from less advantaged backgrounds.

An exhibition was held at the Russian Science and Culture Centre in Hanoi on September 17 to introduce the nation’s leading universities to Vietnamese students.

The Vietnam-Japan partnership has grown steadily, especially in labour cooperation, which has created great chances for Vietnamese labourers to seek jobs or study opportunities in Japan.

Ho Chi Minh City will adopt incentives to encourage the private sector to develop social housing for sale and rent due to the city’s shortage of affordable homes for low-income families and industrial park workers.

A pilot passenger road transport route through Vietnam’s Hai Phong city and Hanoi and China’s Kunming city has been opened, expected to help promote trading activities between the two countries.

The 35th ASEAN Social Security Association (ASSA) Board Meeting will take place in Nha Trang city, in the south central province of Khanh Hoa, on September 18-21.

The hosting of the Asian Associations of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI)’s 14th Assembly will not only contribute to promoting the image of Vietnam, but also give the State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) a good opportunity to forge links with ASOSAI member supreme audit institutions, said Auditor General Ho Duc Phoc.

Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai Joint Stock Company (HAGL) recently handed 2 billion LAK (about 250,000 USD) to authorities of Laos’ southern Attapeu province to support victims of the dam collapse.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has so far signed cooperation deals with 12 localities of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, the Republic of Korea, France and Japan, according to the provincial Department of External Affairs.

Seven persons died after participating in the Autumn Music Gala at the West Lake Water Park in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district on September 16 night, the city police confirmed on September 17, adding that all of them tested positive for drugs.

The northern province of Ninh Binh is striving to become one of the tourism hubs of Vietnam by 2020 and to turn tourism into a spearhead industry of the local economy by 2030.

Officials of the northwestern province of Dien Bien and the Lao province of Luang Prabang agreed to enhance cultural and tourism cooperation during talks in Dien Bien Phu city on September 16.