President Trần Đại Quang and Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday offered sympathies to Indonesian President Joko Widodo on heavy human and property losses caused by an earthquake in Aceh province. 

National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman Đỗ Bá Tỵ has met with senior officials from Canada’s parliament and government, voicing his hope for enhanced and substantive cooperation between the Vietnamese and Canadian parliaments.

Senior officials from the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum gathered at a conference in Hà Nội yesterday to discuss priority topics and key activities for the 2017 APEC Summit to be hosted by Việt Nam.

Leaders of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Laos News Agency (KPL) have agreed to improve the quality of news for exchange, while strengthening communications on the special ties of Việt Nam and Laos, especially in 2017 when the two countries celebrate the 55th anniversary of their relations.

National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân has left Việt Nam for an official visit to India from today to Saturday, announced the NA Committee for External Affairs.

Defence Minister General Ngô Xuân Lịch met yesterday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said that India wishes to maintain and boost friendship and co-operation with Việt Nam.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday stressed the importance of preventing State asset losses while State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are equitised and called into question the individual accountability of SOE leaders in deliberately delaying the process.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng told voters in the capital’s Đông Anh and Long Biên Districts yesterday that the fight against corruption and wastefulness was a hard and long-term task. However, the Party and State would stay the course, he said.

Việt Nam and India on Monday reiterated their desire to improve their bilateral defence co-operation for mutual benefit, peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.