Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has disciplined two former Government officials for their involvement in violations in the purchase of 95 per cent of shares at the AVG Audiovisual JSC by the MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation.

Maritime law enforcement agencies should help uphold order, not become the tools of governments to “project power and change the order” in the East Sea, said Dr Phạm Lan Dung, vice president of the Diplomatic Academy of Việt Nam.

The Embassy of Japan in Hà Nội held a ceremony on December 4 to posthumously present the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun to the late General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee (CPVCC) Đỗ Mười.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân hailed contributions by Honorary Consul General of Việt Nam in Busan-Gyeongnam region Park Soo-kwan to relations between Việt Nam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) while receiving the official yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc met with the UK’s Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, in Hà Nội on December 4, asking his guest to promote the establishment of a Việt Nam-UK university in the Southeast Asian nation.

Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen will lead a high-ranking delegation of the Cambodian Government on an official visit to Việt Nam from Thursday to Saturday.

Việt Nam has implemented 175 out of the 182 recommendations by the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) second-cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) which it accepted in June 2014, heard a seminar in Hà Nội on Monday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has instructed the Government to renew its management work and address shortcomings recently revealed by the National Assembly and members of the public.

 

A high-level delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) led by NA Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân will pay an official visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) this week.