Politics

Co-operation with DPRK deepens
26/05/2011 05:00
Photo: VNA Viet Nam had always attached importance to strengthening friendly and co-operative ties with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the benefit...
HCM City: Three artists elected to People’s Council
26/05/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City on May 26, made public the list of 95 winners of the People’s Council election (2011-2016 tenure), which took place on May 22. Three of them are female artists. Cai luong artist Que Tran...
US agricultural trade restrictions ease
25/05/2011 05:00
A ministerial meeting of the Viet Nam-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council ended in Washington on Monday with an agreement on access to each other’s market for several mutually supplementary agricultural products. Minister of Industry and...
Corruption causes poverty in mineral-abundant countries
25/05/2011 05:00
VietNamNet Bridge – At the 9th regular anti-corruption dialogue with foreign donors in Hanoi on May 25, attendants pointed out that because of corruption in mining, richness in minerals does not become advantage for Vietnam’s development. The dialogue, which...
GOVERNMENT IN BRIEF 26/5
25/05/2011 05:00
Fruitful co-operation with Britain praised by Prime Minister Dung Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung expressed his pleasure at the fruitful development of bilateral relations under the Viet Nam-UK strategic partnership, saying he wanted the two sides...
Attaches told of efforts to find missing troops
25/05/2011 05:00
The Ministry of National Defence yesterday, May 25, briefed foreign military attaches on efforts to search for foreign soldiers who remain missing in action (MIA) after the wars....
GOVERNMENT IN BRIEF 25/5
24/05/2011 05:00
Germany’s Bavaria state focuses on ties with Vietnamese localities The German state of Bavaria is keen to strengthen economic cooperation with Vietnam’s localities. State...