Vietnam for the second time assumed the role of rotating President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2020-2021 tenure this month, thus making a new and important imprint in the process of transforming from a participant to an active and proactive UN member.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has proposed to implement a smart and energy efficient city project (SEECP) with total investment of more than 1.56 trillion VND (67.29 million USD) in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

Vietnam requests that businesses respect the country's sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, as well as its sovereignty, sovereign right and jurisdiction over related waters in the East Sea, said Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang at the ministry's regular press conference in Hanoi on April 8.

A number of Egyptian newspapers on April 5 ran articles on Vietnam's new leadership which, they said, will contribute to consolidating the relations between the two countries.