Việt Nam News

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng last Saturday signed the Politburo’s first regulation on personnel rotation, aiming at reducing redundancy and ensuring administrative leadership in disadvantaged areas.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Nguyễn Chí Vịnh and Singaporean Permanent Secretary for Defence Chan Yeng Kit co-chaired the 8th Việt Nam-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue in Hà Nội yesterday.

The Party Central Committee named Minister of Transport, Trương Quang Nghĩa, as secretary of the Đà Nẵng City's Party Committee to replace Nguyễn Xuân Anh whom it dismissed last week as part of its public campaign against corruption.

The Party Central Committee (PCC) dismissed the Secretary of the Đà Nẵng municipal Party Committee yesterday during the third working day of its sixth plenary meeting in Hà Nội.

Nations should look beyond mere economic gains at questions of sovereignty and excessive dependence when considering participation in China’s Belt and Road (BRI) initiative, experts said yesterday.

A Vietnam News Agency report said yesterday that the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia had worked with competent localities authorities to complete procedures for repatriating the fishermen.

Việt Nam is committed to creating favourable conditions for Japanese businesses to invest in the country, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told Kanji Hayama, former president of the Japan’s Taisei Corp., in Hà Nội yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc spoke highly of Bulgarian Ambassador Evgueni Stefanov Stoytchev’s dedication to boost the Việt Nam-Bulgaria relations when the outgoing ambassador came to bid farewell to him yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said Việt Nam will do its best to foster ASEAN-India strategic partnership in its role as the current coordinator of ASEAN-India ties and a close friend of India.

In a wide ranging policy speech yesterday, Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng laid out key areas for reform, ranging from the country’s growth model and State budget, to bad debts and population control.

Several private companies have invested in building infrastructure for the 2017 APEC forum.

The Party, the Government and political apparatus as a whole is committed and determined to fight corruption, Minister and Chairman of the Government’s Office, Mai Tiến Dũng, said yesterday.

Viet Nam always treasures and accords top priority to preserving and developing its special solidarity with Laos, President Trần Đại Quang said yesterday.

Việt Nam urges its businesses to boost investment in Cuba in the fields of consumer goods production and agriculture, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz in Hà Nội yesterday.

The first meeting of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) Executive Council has called for the building of solidarity and trust to foster peace and stability in the continent.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told a meeting of Government yesterday he was worried about the slow disbursement of public investment capital.

Deputy Minister of Defence and Chief of the General Staff of the Việt Nam People’s Army Phan Văn Giang yesterday held talks with Indian Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba who is visiting Việt Nam from October 3-8.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng has urged the Governments of Việt Nam and Laos to develop measures to increase two-way trade and boost connectivity in their economies, transport infrastructure and energy systems.