Việt Nam always attached importance to developing its friendship and multi-faceted co-operation with Africa, and Morocco was the country’s priority partner in North Africa, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân said on Thursday. 

Shan tea, a type of wild tea tree grown by ethnic minorities, has been well known in the mountainous provinces in the north of Việt Nam for many years.

Peter Dunai was among very few foreign correspondents who travelled to the northern border area of Việt Nam to cover the 1979 Việt Nam-China border war.

In just three years under the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, spearheaded by the Pol Pot, Cambodia was pushed to the brink of extinction with nearly three million people killed.

A short story by Du An

A ceremony marking the 40^th anniversary of the victory of the southwest border defence war and the joint victory of Việt Nam and Cambodia over the genocidal regime (January 07) was held yesterday in Hà Nội.

Efforts to honour war veterans, martyrs’ families and those who contributed to the national revolutionary cause should not end with slogans but practical actions which cared for their material and spiritual lives, said National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân yesterday while attending a ceremony in Thái Nguyên Province in honour of 60 young war martyrs who died on December 24, 1972.

A revolutionary victory in the fight against the Americans was commemorated on Thursday at a ceremony at the Truông Bồn historical site in the central province of Nghệ An.

The Museum of History in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế is showcasing 200 photographs of Agent Orange (AO) victims and planning related activities following the lawsuit against producers of AO.