Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh yesterday sent a letter of condolence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov over the death of Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Perfecto Yasay agreed to hasten the approval of the Viet Nam-Philippines action programme for 2017-2022 to forge stronger bilateral cooperation. 

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng has asked the Mekong Delta province of Bạc Liêu to focus on developing hi-tech agriculture and a sea-based economy.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his hope that Morocco would expand multifaceted cooperation with ASEAN, including Việt Nam.

The National Assembly Standing Committee was attempting to go against the congressional vote earlier in which juveniles will be fully subject to criminal charges for rape, deliberately injuring people or kidnapping.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday acknowledged that a holder of Vietnamese passport was arrested in Malaysia for her alleged involvement in the murder of a North Korean citizen Kim Chol.

Regional connectivity should be strengthened to work out more initiatives on coping with the “new norm of natural disasters” facing the APEC members, a Vietnamese official said yesterday.

Four working groups have completed their two-day sessions as part of the first Senior Officials’ Meeting of APEC (SOM-1), which is underway in Nha Trang city, in the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, from February 18 to March 3. 

President Trần Đại Quang yesterday asked all armed units in Thanh Hóa Province to strengthen their regular drills and spare no effort in building up the capacity to tackle all emergencies for maintaining national security.