Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyễn Quốc Dũng proposed several priorities in ASEAN-US cooperation in his speech to the ASEAN-US Special Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in Washington D.C. on Thursday.

The Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee (CPVCC) opened its fifth plenary meeting of the 12th tenure in Hà Nội today.

President Tran Đại Quang paid a visit yesterday to Most Venerable Thich Phổ Tuệ, Supreme Patriarch of the Việt Nam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) on the occasion of the Buddha’s 2561st Birthday Festival 2017.

Việt Nam adamantly opposes and rejects China’s unilateral ban on fishing in the East Sea from May 1 to August 16, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng told the media at a regular press conference yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has directed that each ministry and locality must devise a detailed plan to fulfill set targets, in which responsibilities of individuals and units must be specified.

Twenty countries registered to participate in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)’s symposium for the Asia-Pacific region on climate change response to be held in Hồ Chí Minh City from May 11-13, organisers reported yesterday.

Việt Nam and Japan highly valued co-operation between the two nations' parliaments, friendship parliamentary groups, and parliamentarians.

The suspect Nguyễn Hữu Tấn had used knife to kill himself in the detention centre of the Vĩnh Long Province Police, the provincial People’s Committee said during a press conference yesterday.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Phạm Quang Vinh has affirmed Việt Nam’s desire to tighten its comprehensive partnership with the US at recent meetings with elected US officials in Washington DC.