Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Three companies, including Russia's E4 Group, JSC KIEP and LLC EPT, will provide consultation services to make a site approval dossier and an investment project for Ninh Thuan 1 nuclear power project.

HANOI — Vietnam will have a submarine fleet within six years, the defence minister reportedly announced on Thursday, in what analysts say is intended as a deterrent to China's increasing assertiveness at sea.

The Russian Navy Command has suggested re-launching a marine logistics base for Russian warships in the Vietnamese deep-water port in Cam Rahn Bay, formerly the largest Soviet base outside the country.

Russian state oil firm Zarubezhneft will sign a deal with Vietnam's PetroVietnam in October to develop the 09-1 oil field off the south of the Asian country, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.

Moscow - Three years ago, Cuong left his wife and two children in Vietnam and went to Russia in search of a job.

HANOI - Vietnam is now officially Russia's biggest arms client thanks to recent orders for six Kilo-class submarines and 12 Su-30 fighter jets, according to a Moscow-based think tank.

MOSCOW - Vietnam could become a key importer of Russian weaponry if several contracts on the purchase of diesel submarines and aircraft are signed in the near future, a Russian newspaper said.

MOSCOW - Vietnam has signed a deal to buy 12 Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets from Russia for about US$500 million (S$735 million), Russian media reported on Thursday, citing industry sources.

A Russian expedition team will plant Vietnam’s national flag at the North Pole and record images confirming the time and coordinate, according to the Vietnamese embassy in Moscow.

Forty-eight Vietnamese nationals have just arrived in the Russian city of Ekateriburg to work under a contract signed between Sitmontaz factory and Song Da SIMCO joint stock company.

Vietnam is interested in expanding military-technical cooperation with Russia for strengthening the country's defence capability," Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet said in an interview with Itar-Tass.

MOSCOW - Gazprom has reached an agreement with Vietnam's state oil and gas company Petrovietnam to develop four new deposits on the Vietnamese shelf, the state-controlled Russian natural gas giant said Friday. "The agreement envisions prospecting work and further development of four new blocks on the Vietnamese shelf. Vietgazprom will be the project operator," the company said.