Việt Nam wants to enhance co-operation with Germany, hoping the European nation will provide support in developing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), digital technology and boosting start-up development and innovation.

Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei starts a three-day visit to Việt Nam from today.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân will make official visits to Morocco and France, work with the EU Parliament and attend the 140th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and related meetings in Doha, Qatar from March 28 to April 8, the National Assembly’s External Affairs Committee announced.

The Việt Nam-Singapore Cooperation Centre was officially launched in Hà Nội on Saturday.

Prison sentences ranging from 4-9 years have been proposed for two ex-leaders of the Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro for “abusing position and power to appropriate assets.”

Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei will pay a State-level visit to Việt Nam from March 26-28 at the invitation of President Nguyễn Phú Trọng.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked for measures to promote Việt Nam-Singapore ties, especially in the areas of national defence-security, economy, trade, investment, education-training and people-to-people exchange, as well as joint work in ASEAN and other multilateral forums.

The Secretaries of the Communist Party of Vietnam Committees of four Vietnamese northern border provinces – Lạng Sơn, Quảng Ninh, Cao Bằng and Hà Giang – and the Communist Party of China Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region held talks in Lạng Sơn on Friday as part of their New Year Meeting 2019.

The Vietnamese National Assembly will closely cooperate with the National Assembly and Senate of Cambodia to further expand and improve the efficiency of collaboration between the two governments as well as the two legislatures at regional and international parliamentary forums, the top legislator has said.