VietNamNet Bridge – Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Org-anisation (NEDO) will help fund and build an industrial waste treatment system in Ha Noi that will also be used to generate electricity.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese film Long Thanh Cam Gia Ca will bring the story of a love affair between one of the country's most famous poets and a young singer to the silver screen at the Viet Nam International Film Festival.

VietNamNet Bridge – Entertainment and recreational facilities for children in HCM City are unable to meet the increasing and diverse demands of children because they are hampered by funding and personnel shortages.

VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese director Nobuhiro Doi's latest film Hanamizuki is one of ten films scheduled to show in competition at the first Viet Nam International Film Festival, which runs until Thursday in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's top three-cushion billiards player Duong Anh Vu will compete in the 63rd World Three Cushion Championships from tomorrow, Oct 20, to Sunday in Sluiskil, the Netherlands.

Ten hurt in crash in Ba Ria-Vung Tau; Ha Noi bans transport of uninspected livestock; Pakistan donates computers; Dengue fever on the rise; VFF contributes to maintaining social order

Hai Phong voters concerned about agriculture development; Belarusian legislative delegation begins visit; VN to host meeting of ASEAN statistical offices

VietNamNet Bridge – While foreign singers organize live shows to earn money, Vietnamese singers hold live shows to “burn” money!

Ho Chi Minh City is the most important economic center in Vietnam as it accounts for a high proportion of Vietnam’s economy. Ho Chi Minh City plays an important driving impetus of economy of Vietnam.

HCM City has an area of approximately 2,094 square kilometers. It is located from 10 10’-10 38’ North and 106o2’-106o54’ East.

In 1998, Ho Chi Minh City celebrated its 300th anniversary, but the period of the 75 years between 1623 and 1698 may be regarded as the time in which Saigon was founded.

Vietnamese embassies and consulates abroad

Foreign Embassies and Consulates in Vietnam

Hanoi is located in the Red River Delta. It is encompassed by Thai Nguyen, Vinh Phuc provinces to the north, Hoa Binh and Ha Nam to the south, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh and Hung Yen provinces to the east, Hoa Binh and Phu Tho to the west.

Vietnam has an age-old and special culture that is closely attached to the history of the formation and development of the nation.

Vietnam’s territorial waters make around 1,000,000 km2, with over 3,000 km long coastline lines. Vietnam lies along the Indochinese Peninsula and circles the old southeastern part of the Asian continent with its back turned to the East Sea.

List of the countries and territories maintaining diplomatic relations with Vietnam:

The meetings of the Politburo and of the 5th Party Central Committee from July to December 1986 all concentrated on compiling and approving the Political Report to submit to the 6th National Congress.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front is a voluntary political coalition of political organizations, socio-political organizations, social organizations and individuals from all classes, social strata, ethnic groups, and religions.

With the natural features as presented in the part “Nature”, cultivation was early developed.

The National Assembly is the highest representative organ of the people; the highest organ of state power of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the sole organ that has the constitutional and legislative rights.

Over the past 75 years, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has been in the vanguard of the struggle for national independence and leading the people to total victory in the 30-year resistance war against powerful aggressors.

Vietnam is the home to 54 ethnic groups.

Vietnam is located in a region considered a cradle of mankind, one of the earliest agricultural centres practicing wet rice farming, where the stone and metallurgical revolutions took place.

CONSTITUTION 1992