Vietnam will host a conference promoting the Asia-Europe partnership in the 21st century on April 20, representing one of the country’s significant efforts to deepen relations between the two continents.

The Vietnamese Permanent Representative to the UN has affirmed Vietnam’s support for the peaceful settlement of the protracted Israel-Palestine conflict in accordance with relevant UN resolutions while calling for an end to all acts of violence.

 Seven groups of Indochinese gray langurs, with 192-212 living in the Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in Thanh Hoa province, are endangered due to local residents’ hunting, the Nature Reserve’s management board said. 

 Newly-appointed Transport Minister Truong Quang Nghia said that the transport sector will continue to face major infrastructure development issues given the country's sharply increasing public debts.

 It is estimated that the country needs approximately 7,770 teachers of English for primary schools based on the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)'s National Foreign Languages Project by 2020.

 The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (VME) has recently been awarded the ‘Most Attractive Destination in Vietnam in 2015’ title by the Vietnam Tourism Association.

 An Australian man has travelled to seven countries carrying a sign reading ‘I love you’ in Vietnamese for his Australian girlfriend.

  Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport will reach its 40 million passenger per annum capacity by 2018 a conference recently heard.

 The European literature book days will be held for the first time at Nguyen Van Binh Book Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 from May 8-12.

 Vietnam has the highest number of tourists among Southeast countries visiting Japan, with 2015 growth being up 1.5-fold over 2014.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on April 17 highlighted several advantages of the central province of Quang Tri while attending the locality’s investment and tourism promotion conference on April 17.

Japan’s JX Nippon Oil and Energy Corporation last week officially agreed to purchase an 8 per cent stake in state-run Petrolimex, which holds 55 per cent of the local petroleum retail market share.

Leading European airports company Aeroport de Paris and Vietnam’s biggest airport operator Airports Corporation of Vietnam are expected to begin negotiations on a stake sale next month.

 At a ceremony held in Hanoi, 10 hoteliers from Vietnam were presented ASEAN Green Hotel Awards.

 Australian Ambassador Hugh Borrowman has visited almost all provinces and cities across Vietnam during his four-year working term in Vietnam.

 Rocket Internet is jumping ship and divesting itself of unprofitable Asian fashion portal Zalora business units in both Vietnam and Thailand, according to TechCrunch media.

Vietnam won a bronze medal in the men’s team sabre event at the Asian Fencing Championships which ended in Wuxi, China, yesterday. 

 Gymnasts Phan Thi Ha Thanh and Pham Phuoc Hung have qualified to represent Vietnam at the 2016 Olympic Games, following their performances at an Olympic qualifying tournament in Brazil.

 The first-ever contest for designing sculptures and architectural symbols for public places has been launched for Vietnamese citizens.

 After 15 years of planning, Chaplin's World, an interactive museum showcasing the life and works of Charlie Chaplin, has opened in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey on Lake Geneva.

VietNamNet Bridge - The lives of hundreds of thousands of households in the downstream Ba River has been upset since the day the An Khe-Kanak blocked the stream to store water for electricity generation in September 2011.

 Despite the abundance of modern supermarkets and shopping malls in Ho Chi Minh City, niche markets still attract customers who love discovering unusual, odd or hard-to-find products.

VietNamNet Bridge - Domestic organizations, stage agencies and businesses remain passive in handling  security vulnerabilities, which brings high risks to networks, especially servers.

 Up to eight million people flocked to northern Phu Tho province to celebrate t he annual Hung Kings Temple festival, said the organising board.

 “Just PHO you” is a highlight of the cuisine week featuring Vietnamese food in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from April 11-18.