Mozambique’s Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario yesterday urged Vietnamese firms to engage more with his country in the fields of oil and gas, marine transport, and farm produce and seafood process in order to meet the trade targets set by the two countries’ leaders.

Politburo member Trần Quốc Vượng began serving as a permanent member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) yesterday.

The police are stepping up their investigation into the Phạm Công Danh case, announcing yesterday that they were prosecuting a woman for her alleged involvement in the biggest economic case in Việt Nam’s history.

Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario began a four-day official visit to Việt Nam yesterday at the invitation of Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission has issued a warning against Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Hồ Thị Kim Thoa for “serious violations” during the time she served as the top leader of Điện Quang Lamp Company.

Trịnh Xuân Thanh, former Chairman of the state-run PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC), gave himself up to the Investigation Security Agency under the Ministry of Public after nearly one year of evading international arrest warrant, the ministry announced yesterday.

The Investigation Security Agency under the Ministry of Public Security yesterday decided to prosecute six people charged with planning to overthrow the administration in Hà Nội and some other localities.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lê Thị Thu Hằng yesterday stressed that oil and gas exploration and exploitation activities were being carried out by Việt Nam in waters completely under its sovereignty.

The Shah Alam High Court of Malaysia announced on Friday that the trial of Vietnamese citizen Đoàn Thị Hương and Indonesian citizen Siti Aisyah, the suspects in the murder of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) citizen Kim Chol, will last for 23 days, till the end of this November.