The Planning Law needs to target existing shortcomings to ensure that the country’s socio-eonomic development strategy is legal and concrete, said deputies at the second session of 14th NA yesterday.

President Trần Đại Quang starts an official visit to Italy from Monday to Thursday, the first European country that he has visited since taking office earlier this year. On the occasion, the Rome bureau of the Vietnam News Agency talks to the Vietnamese ambassador to Italy, Cao Chính Thiện

The fourth deputy ministerial-level foreign affairs and defence strategic dialogue between Việt Nam and Australia took place in Hà Nội yesterday, aiming to enhance their comprehensive partnership.

The ASEAN Traffic Police Forum launched yesterday in Hà Nội is essential for ensuring traffic order and safety and creating favourable conditions for cross-border freight transportation among members states of the Association of Southeast Asian countries, said Senior Lieutenant General Tô Lâm, Vietnamese Minister of Public Security.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged the northern province of Hòa Bình to further improve its investment environment in order to attract investors at a local investment promotion conference on Saturday. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged the northern province of Hòa Bình to improve its investment environment so it can attract investors. 

Việt Nam is ready for hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) meetings in the country’s central city of Đà Nẵng in 2017, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh confirmed at the 28th APEC Ministerial Meeting (AMM) in Peru on November 18 (local time). 

President Trần Đại Quang highlighted the comprehensive partnership between Việt Nam and the US while addressing a workshop with the US–APEC Business Coalition in Lima, Peru, on November 18 (local time), on the occasion of the 24th High-level Week of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Forum from November 17-20. 

President Trần Đại Quang and Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla have agreed to deepen bilateral collaboration in marine security and fighting terrorism and organised crime.