The year 2012 offers many opportunities for Vietnam to send workers abroad, according to the Overseas Labour Management Department under the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs.

President Truong Tan Sang on Feb. 5 received foreign poets who are in Vietnam to attend the first Asia-Pacific Poetry Festival.

Le Van Bay, 47, from Tuy Phuoc district in the central province of Binh Dinh has discovered a fossil stump which is believed to be more than 10,000 years old.

Nearly all members of the Ramsar Convention’s Secretariat have reached an agreement to recognize Cham Trim National Park, of Dong Thap Mekong Delta province, as a Ramsar Convention of Wetlands of International Importance, according to the park’s director, Nguyen Van Hung.