President Tran Dai Quang yesterday welcomed the signing of several cooperation agreements at the fifth ministerial conference on anti-crime cooperation in Hanoi between the public security ministries of Vietnam and China.

President of the Philippines Rodrigo Roa Duterte will pay an official visit to Việt Nam on September 28-29, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.

Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh has affirmed the country’s all-out effort to ensure people’s right to development while addressing the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development.

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh and US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed on the need for Việt Nam and the United States to strengthen ties.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has emphasised the need for Cambodia and Việt Nam to intensify information sharing to develop relations.

The draft Law on Associations sat at the top agenda of the National Assembly Standing Committee members on the last working day of their third session yesterday.

Việt Nam and Denmark should maintain co-operation in legislative affairs and policy making in order to tighten the relations between the two legislative bodies and their offices, National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Tòng Thị Phóng has stated.

Việt Nam is co-operating with international bodies on the case of Trịnh Xuân Thanh, who has been issued with an international arrest warrant over massive US$147 million losses incurred by a company he once chaired, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokeman Lê Hải Bình said yesterday.

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Việt Nam appointed the Central Committee of the Police's Party for the 2015-2020 tenure, naming Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng among them.