Việt Nam News

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.

Đoàn Thị Hương, a Vietnamese woman suspected of murdering Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) citizen Kim Chol, pled not guilty at the start of the trial in Malaysia yesterday.

Ambassador Dương Chí Dũng, head of Việt Nam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN), World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations in Geneva, has been elected Chairman of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) General Assembly for 2018-2019.

Việt Nam considers co-operation with Boeing a long-term priority, and the Government will create all favourable conditions for the US company to expand investments in the country, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc at a reception for President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) Kevin McAllister in Hà Nội yesterday. 

Bilateral ties between Viet Nam and Cuba are at their best development period, expanding in all fields, Construction Minister Phạm Hồng Hà said yesterday.

The National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology and Environment held the 6^th plenary meeting yesterday to review and discuss amendments made to Law on Fisheries (revised) and the Law on Forest Protection and Development (revised)

National Assembly leader said caution is advised for the amendments of the Law on Public Investment, saying that adjustments are necessary but it must not be done in haste, or risks disrupting the legal system.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said the Vietnamese Party, government, and people always cherish the relationship with Laos, considering it a valuable asset and a critical element in the two countries’ revolutionary cause.