(VOVworld) – The 3rd Vietnam-Laos Friendship Festival kicked off today in Hanoi, opening a series of activities to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Laos. The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan and Phankham Viphavanh, a Politburo member of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and Lao Minister of Education and Sports, and President of the Laos – Vietnam Friendship Association.

(VOVworld) – This year’s summer voluntary campaign has been launched in Hanoi with nearly 1,000 young people and students participating.

(VOVworld) - Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh told VOV reporters about the outcomes of the 45th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-45), which concluded on Friday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

(VOV) - Both the East Asia Summit (EAS) and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) need to make further contributions to the region’s common goals of peace, stability, security, and cooperation.

(VOVworld) - The 2012 Overseas Vietnamese Youth Camp got underway in Hanoi’s Dong Mo outlying district on Thursday. With the theme ‘Coming to the Red Land’,

(VOVworld) - Themed ‘Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services’, this year’s World Population Day on July 11th will promote activities relating to voluntary family planning, support for birth delivery, measures to prevent sexually transmitted bacterial infections, and improvement of health conditions for mothers and children.

(VOVworld) – President Truong Tan Sang Tuesday received a delegation of veterans from across the country who had distinguished themselves in the field during the country’s revolutionary years. President Sang was very moved when listening to the war veterans’ stories and praised them for their contributions to the country’s past struggle for national independence and today’s construction.

(VOVworld) - A supervisory delegation from the National Assembly’s Standing Committee held a meeting in Hanoi on Monday to listen to reports on the outcomes of new policies on land for business and residential purposes for ethnic minority people.

(VOVworld)-The 6th festival of the International Federation of Cinema, Television, Tourism and Sports has concluded in Hanoi . Films from Vietnam , Spain and Sweden won first prizes in the movie and archives cate

(VOVworld)-The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance held a meeting in Hanoi on Saturday to celebrate the International Day of Co-operatives and the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives. The International Cooperative Alliance is a large organization with more than 750,000 cooperatives and nearly 1 billion in