General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng and Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Thursday sent messages of condolence to Indonesian President Joko Widodo over the passing of the former Indonesian President Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie on Wednesday.
It includes a detailed map of a battlefield in Phước Tuy Province, currently known as Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province, and Trường Sa (Spratly) Archipelago where about 3,000 Vietnamese people were buried after battles with Australia and New Zealand’s soldiers.
Việt Nam is winning the war on corruption – albeit gradually.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday condemned Chinese moves to hamper Việt Nam’s oil and gas businesses within the country’s rightful waters, saying they constitute a serious violation of international law.
Several laws and regulations that were supposed to be developed following Việt Nam’s new Constitution in 2013 are still yet to materialise, let alone be ratified, according to the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee.
Việt Nam, Cambodia and Laos should work together across their borders to fight the illegal drug trade, said participants at the 18th trilateral/bilateral ministerial meeting on drug control co-operation among the three nations held in Hà Nội on Wednesday.
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân has emphasised the necessity to improve, facilitate and preserve cultural and spiritual life of ethnic minority people alongside attention to social and economic development.
Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình yesterday said Việt Nam is committed in the fight against illegal drugs.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc received Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz in Hà Nội on Tuesday, pledging to encourage Vietnamese firms’ investment in the Caribbean nation.
The Vietnamese Party, State and people always treasure the fraternal solidarity, traditional friendship and comprehensive co-operation with Cuba, and want to expand collaboration in the fields of both sides’ strengths so as to benefit the development of each nation, Minister of Construction Phạm Hồng Hà said on Tuesday.
Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) capital co-ordinated by the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) has contributed to Việt Nam’s socioeconomic development in the past, especially in infrastructure development, said a high-ranking lawmaker.
The Secretariat of the Party Central Committee decided on disciplinary measures against two officials of the southern province of Đồng Nai during a meeting in Hà Nội on Tuesday.
Measures to promote joint investigations in preventing drug trafficking along sea routes in Southeast Asia were discussed at a workshop in Hà Nội on Monday.
Over the years, trade and investment co-operation between the two countries have been expanding, with two-way trade surpassing US$60 billion, the PM noted.
At the reception, Phúc thanked Nicaragua for supporting Việt Nam in its successful bid to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2020-021 tenure.
This will be the first time Việt Nam assumes an important role relating to peacekeeping activities by hosting the eighth APCN meeting.
Việt Nam encourages businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to make investment in specialised industrial parks targeting Korean firms and Vietnamese small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyễn Văn Bình has said that Việt Nam values and creates favourable conditions for clean energy investors in general and the US’s AES energy company in particular.
