The National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday debated budgetary allocations to implement a national programme on building new-style rural areas in the Mekong Delta region between 2016 and 2020.
The southernmost province of Cà Mau should develop agriculture, forestry and fisheries with a focus on shrimp farming and processing, and sea- and forest-based economic activities, Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng said yesterday at a meeting with provincial officials.
Việt Nam’s Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said yesterday that ASEAN should focus more on improving the quality of people’s lives, ensuring that all benefit equally from the building of the ASEAN Community.
More than 100 delegates from 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and experts from a number of international financial organisations attended a seminar on disaster risk financing and insurance policies in Nha Trang City yesterday.
Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, President of the Russian Federal Council, stated that Russia aims to continue to strengthen friendship and cooperation between the two legislatures of Russia and Việt Nam.
Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will pay a State visit to Việt Nam for the first time, from February 28-March 5.
Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh yesterday sent a letter of condolence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov over the death of Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Perfecto Yasay agreed to hasten the approval of the Viet Nam-Philippines action programme for 2017-2022 to forge stronger bilateral cooperation.
Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng has asked the Mekong Delta province of Bạc Liêu to focus on developing hi-tech agriculture and a sea-based economy.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his hope that Morocco would expand multifaceted cooperation with ASEAN, including Việt Nam.
The National Assembly Standing Committee was attempting to go against the congressional vote earlier in which juveniles will be fully subject to criminal charges for rape, deliberately injuring people or kidnapping.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday acknowledged that a holder of Vietnamese passport was arrested in Malaysia for her alleged involvement in the murder of a North Korean citizen Kim Chol.
Regional connectivity should be strengthened to work out more initiatives on coping with the “new norm of natural disasters” facing the APEC members, a Vietnamese official said yesterday.
Four working groups have completed their two-day sessions as part of the first Senior Officials’ Meeting of APEC (SOM-1), which is underway in Nha Trang city, in the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, from February 18 to March 3.
President Trần Đại Quang yesterday asked all armed units in Thanh Hóa Province to strengthen their regular drills and spare no effort in building up the capacity to tackle all emergencies for maintaining national security.
More than 390 representatives from APEC working groups were brought together in the city of Nha Trang, in the province of Khánh Hòa, on Saturday to map out cooperation orientations in 2017.
Chairperson of the Council of the Federation (Upper House) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, starts a two-day official visit to Việt Nam today, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly (NA) has announced.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday advised businesses in Nghệ An to devise long-term strategies that utilise the many advantages enjoyed by the central province.