(VOVworld) – Doctor Pham Minh Tuan, founder of the TOPICA Educational Technology Group, was a guest speaker at the education symposium KINSES 2016 last weekend at Zayed University, Dubai.

(VOVworld) – Vietnam has, for the first time, had a candidate to run for a post in the International Law Commission, a prestigious global legal forum in charge of compiling international treaties including the 1958 Geneva Conventions on the Law of the Sea.

(VOVworld) – The 2016 Youth Month was launched in Vinh Phuc province on Saturday. 3,000 youth union members and young people attended the launch.

(VOVworld) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has encouraged commercial counselors to work as a bridge to help Vietnamese businesses boost exports and promote their products abroad.

(VOVworld) - The MicroDragon, a miniature satellite designed and manufactured by Vietnamese engineers is scheduled to be launched in 2018 by Japan’s Epsilon rocket.

(VOVworld) – On Wednesday, major German newspapers criticized China’s escalation of tensions in the East Sea by deploying fighter jets to Woody island in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago. The Frankfurt General newspaper said the Beijing government had injected a new element into sovereignty disputes in the East Sea with its deployment of fighter jets to Woody island. It criticized China’s sovereignty claim to 90% of the East Sea. The article said US satellite images indicate that China might have illegally built a high frequency radar station on Truong Sa archipelago.

(VOVworld) - The Vietnam 2035 report, themed “toward prosperity creativity, equity and democracy”, was released in Hanoi on Tuesday by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the World Bank.

(VOVworld) – The Museum of Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups in Thai Nguyen and Thai Nguyen Literature and Arts Association co-hosted the Poetry Day on Sunday. The event, themed “Spring aspiration”, had diverse activities and attracted a large number of artists and audiences.

(VOVworld) – The annual Lim festival, which opens on the 12th and 13th day of the 1st lunar month in Bac Ninh province, has attracted thousands of visitors and several singers of Quan Ho folk singing. Festival goers joined with the local people to offer incenses at Hong An pagoda and temples of the local genies.

(VOVworld) - The Vietnamese Embassy in France organized an exchange with members of the French-Asian Association in Paris this week.