Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung laid stress on controlling inflation at a single digit as one of urgent tasks to be drastically addressed to help the country maintain a reasonable growth of around 6 percent for the whole year.

President Truong Tan Sang on Feb. 4 visited the Vietnamese ethnic culture-tourism village in Hanoi ’s outskirt district of Son Tay.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) have agreed to assist Vietnam in cancer control through IAEA’s Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT).

Vietnam shipped abroad 279,266 tonnes of rice in January, bringing home 153.650 million USD, a 50 percent decrease year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

The 10 th annual Vietnamese Poetry Day took place at the Temple of Literature in Hanoi on Feb. 5, drawing the participation of nearly 70 poets from 27 countries and territories.

The US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, had a meeting with a number of Vietnamese officials in Hanoi on Feb. 2 as part of his visit to Vietnam .