The first batch of Filipino pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia to embark on the 2023 Hajj, the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh announced Sunday. The group composed of 292 men and women landed at the Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz International Airport …
A police station commander in Angeles City in Pampanga and six other policemen were nabbed for alleged unlawful arrest and arbitrary detention of 13 civilians. Agents of the Philippine National Police (PNP) anti-scalawag unit arrested station commande…
Swimmer Gary Bejino topped the men’s 400-meter freestyle S6 to give the Philippines its first gold medal in 12th ASEAN Para Games at Morodok Techo National Stadium Aquatics Center here on Sunday. The 27-year-old native of Tabaco, Albay province clocke…
The 45th anniversary of the Vietnam-United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnership for sustainable development was held on June 2 evening in Hanoi.The ceremony, co-organised by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and UNDP, marked an impor…
A delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence led by Deputy Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien is attending the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue that officially opened in Singapore on June 3.Organised by the International Institute for S…
The Vietnam – Japan Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group convened its third meeting in the northern province of Lao Cai on June 3 under the chair of its President Truong Thi Mai.The participants listened to a report reviewing the group’s activities sinc…
Rasmei Kampuchea, a newspaper with the largest readership in Cambodia, ran an article on June 2 highlighting Vietnam’s investment priority policy for ethnic groups in the country in general and the Mekong Delta in particular, including the Khmer ethni…
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 3 asked ministries, agencies and localities to push the three engines of export, investment and consumption in order to spur the country’s economic growth in the time ahead.Speaking at an online regular meeting b…
President Vo Van Thuong on June 3 sent a message of condolences to his Indian counterpart Droupadi Murmu over the deadly train crash which left many people dead and injured in India’s Odisha state a day earlier.Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also exte…
Vietnam’s motorcycle market has been among some of the fastest-growing markets in the world in the last decades despite setbacks brought by the COVID-19 global pandemic, according to the Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM).Currently…
An investment promotion conference was held in Tokyo on June 2 to call for Japanese investment in localities of Vietnam.The event drew the participation of leaders of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Vietnam in Japan, representat…
The Vietnam Festival 2023 with the theme of “Hope” opened at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo on June 3.Hosted by the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan, the event is one of the major celebrations for the 50th founding anniversary of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties.In his…
