President To Lam expressed his delight at the strong development of the Vietnam - New Zealand strategic partnership over the past years while hosting a reception in Hanoi on July 4 for newly-appointed New Zealand Ambassador to Vietnam Caroline Beresford.

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son and British Secretary of State for Education Nadhim Zahawi agreed to enhance the countries’ educational cooperation during a meeting in London on June 29.

Vietnam is ramping up efforts to get its second level-2 field hospital ready for the United Nations’ peacekeeping activities in the near future.

The Military Regional English Language Schools (RELS) Conference, held by Vietnam’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Australian Department of Defence, opened in Hanoi on August 14.

The central city of Da Nang and FPT, a Vietnamese software giant, inked on April 19 a Memorandum of Understanding on building Da Nang as a ‘smart city’ for the 2018-20 period.