President Trần Đại Quang has assured Azerbaijani Minister of Energy Natig Aga Emi Olgu Aliyev that Việt Nam is ready to create favourable conditions for Azerbaijan’s goods to enter the country. 

The capital city’s police said they are considering electronic (and automatic) charging of traffic fines to the offenders’ bank accounts. Police officers mostly rally behind the idea, while many others, car drivers and other authority figures included, however, are not so impressed, and urged careful study.

President Trần Đại Quang had a working session with the Standing Board of the Hải Phòng municipal Party Committee yesterday, recognising the northern city’s significant achievements in 2016. 

Việt Nam is focused on completing economic reforms, and building a consistent, synchronous and modern administrative regime to enhance management efficiency, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

As part of his visit in Hà Nội yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his desire to help Việt Nam implement managerial personnel training projects.

The Politburo on Monday issued a resolution on developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector by 2020, contributing 10 per cent to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), up from the current 6.8 per cent

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hà Kim Ngọc has called for governmental co-operation and active citizen roles in researching and creating conditions for partnerships with Canada in three fields: development co-operation, education-training, and trade and investment.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will arrive in Việt Nam today for a two-day visit on the last leg of his first trip abroad in 2017.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc will lead a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, from January 17 to 21, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.