Deputy Defence Minister Sen Lieut Gen. Nguyễn Chí Vịnh and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for South and Southeast Asia of the US Dr. Joseph Felter co-chaired the Việt Nam-US defence policy dialogue 2017 in Washington DC on Tuesday.

This round of the biennial forum is billed as one of the industry’s most important as potential energy market transition possibilities will underpin future energy security implications. 

Deputy Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Nguyễn Chí Vịnh and Singaporean Permanent Secretary for Defence Chan Yeng Kit co-chaired the 8th Việt Nam-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue in Hà Nội yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has praised significant success by the private economic sector as they represent 96.7 per cent of the existing half a million businesses.

The 2017 APEC Women and the Economy Forum (WEF) issued yesterday a statement which looks to enhance women’s economic inclusion and empowerment in a changing world. 

According to the Vietnamese Embassy in Mexico, no Vietnamese citizens have injured by the earthquake there, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed yesterday. However, some houses of Vietnamese citizens were destroyed.

The World Bank Group on Thursday released its new Country Partnership Framework (CFP) with Việt Nam, focusing on inclusive growth, investment in people, environmental sustainability and good governance.

The fifth Việt Nam-Japan defence policy dialogue took place in the south central province of Khánh Hòa’s Nha Trang City yesterday under the co-chair of Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyễn Chí Vịnh and his Japanese counterpart, Manabe Ro.

APEC-member economies agreed to continue enhancing regional cooperation to achieve the Bogor Goals of freer and open trade by 2020 in the Asia-Pacific region, an official said at a press conference held on Wednesday in HCM City.

APEC’s two-day third senior officials meeting (SOM 3) began yesterday with the participation of more than 200 delegates from the 21 APEC economies, the APEC Business Advisory Council, the ASEAN Secretariat and the Pacific Economic Co-operation Council.