(VOVworld) - This year’s Vietnam Family Day, themed ‘Family Meal with Love and Compassion”, was marked in Hanoi Thursday to help tighten family bonds.

(VOVworld) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called for the development of the IT sector focusing on human resources, infrastructure and application, creating a momentum for the national socio-economic growth and improving the competitive edge of the economy.

(VOVworld) – Africa and the Middle East have recently emerged as Vietnam’s promising export markets.

(VOVworld) – A meeting was held in Hanoi on Tuesday in response to International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, June 26th. This year’s event is themed ‘Enhancing drug prevention and supporting drug users to reintegrate into the community’.

(VOVworld) – UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee officially recognized and included Vietnam’s Trang An complex in Ninh Binh province in the world heritage list on June 23.

(VOVworld) - The National Assembly is expected to pass amendments to the Health Insurance Law this month. The revision will be more lenient to the poor, as Minister of Health, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, was speaking on a feature “people ask, minister answers” on Saturday.

(VOVworld) – June 21st marked Vietnam’s 89th Revolutionary Press Day. Head of the Party Central Committee’s Communication and Education Commission Dinh The Huynh visited and congratulated the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) and central media agencies in Hanoi on this day. He expressed his belief that VOV will continue to develop and renew itself to meet people’s need for information.

(VOVworld) – 100 Vietnamese and foreign scholars gathered in Da Nang to study historical and legal evidence proving Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos. A similar event took place there in April, 2013.

(VOVworld) – The first meeting of the expert group on Humanitarian Mine Action within the framework of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM+) opened in Hanoi on Wednesday.

(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte co-chaired a conference on plans for coordination to develop the Mekong river delta in Hanoi on Tuesday.