The Investigative Police Agency of the Ministry of Public Security will prosecute two additional suspects related to the embezzlement case against former PetroVietnam Construction (PVC) chairman, Trịnh Xuân Thanh.

Some provincial departments might be merged in keeping with the Govermment’s commitment to streamline its notoriously clunky and bloated bureaucracy, according to a new draft resolution circulated by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA).

Việt Nam is ready to co-operate with President Donald Trump’s administration and maintain the impetus for growing bilateral ties, President Trần Đại Quang told US Ambassador to Việt Nam Ted Osius yesterday.

The Australia and Việt Nam governments on Friday held their High-Level Consultations on Development Cooperation to discuss results of their long-term development co-operation and the importance of its transformation into an economic partnership.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bùi Văn Ga met on Thursday with President of the Swiss Council of States, Ivo Bischofberger, to compare notes on education co-operation between the two countries.

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith on Thursday applauded the effective co-operation between his country’s finance ministry and its Vietnamese counterpart, which his helping improve Lao tax collection and other financial mechanisms.

Vietnamese authorities and media outlets are willing to provide all possible support for the operation of Agence France-Presse in the country, President Trần Đại Quang said on Thursday at a Hà Nội reception for the chairman and CEO of the French news agency, Emmanuel Hoog.

Việt Nam has protested against a live-fire military drill conducted this week by Taiwan in the Trường Sa archipelago, demanding that it refrain from repeating such activity, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lê Hải Bình said on Thursday.

President Trần Đại Quang told President of the Swiss Council of States Ivo Bischofberger that Việt Nam always attaches great importance to reinforcing and promoting the sound relationship with Switzerland during their meeting in Hà Nội yesterday.