Việt Nam News

Việt Nam and Malaysia should work out specific, practical measures to achieve their trade target of US$15 billion by 2020, President Trần Đại Quang told visiting Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, in Hà Nội yesterday.

Factional interests must be excluded from the process of developing institutions, Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình told a meeting of the National Steering Committee for Administrative Reform.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has proposed the Government Offices of Việt Nam and Laos make more contributions to cementing the traditional friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive co-operation between the two countries.

President Trần Đại Quang and Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday offered sympathies to Indonesian President Joko Widodo on heavy human and property losses caused by an earthquake in Aceh province. 

National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairman Đỗ Bá Tỵ has met with senior officials from Canada’s parliament and government, voicing his hope for enhanced and substantive cooperation between the Vietnamese and Canadian parliaments.

Senior officials from the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum gathered at a conference in Hà Nội yesterday to discuss priority topics and key activities for the 2017 APEC Summit to be hosted by Việt Nam.

Leaders of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Laos News Agency (KPL) have agreed to improve the quality of news for exchange, while strengthening communications on the special ties of Việt Nam and Laos, especially in 2017 when the two countries celebrate the 55th anniversary of their relations.

National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân has left Việt Nam for an official visit to India from today to Saturday, announced the NA Committee for External Affairs.

Defence Minister General Ngô Xuân Lịch met yesterday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said that India wishes to maintain and boost friendship and co-operation with Việt Nam.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday stressed the importance of preventing State asset losses while State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are equitised and called into question the individual accountability of SOE leaders in deliberately delaying the process.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng told voters in the capital’s Đông Anh and Long Biên Districts yesterday that the fight against corruption and wastefulness was a hard and long-term task. However, the Party and State would stay the course, he said.

Việt Nam and India on Monday reiterated their desire to improve their bilateral defence co-operation for mutual benefit, peace, stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. 

President Trần Đại Quang pledged that Việt Nam will encourage its business community to invest in Myanmar, especially in agriculture, fish farming, mining and tourism.

Senior officials from the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) member economies will gather at the Informal Senior Officials Meeting (ISOM) in Hà Nội on Friday to discuss priorities and key activities of the 2017 APEC to be hosted by Việt Nam.

Voters who are members of the armed forces in Military Region 9 put forth a range of opinions about the socio-economic development in the Mekong Delta while meeting with National Assembly deputies yesterday.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân and the NA deputies of the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ met yesterday with voters in Ninh Kiều and Cái Răng districts to inform them of the outcome of the 14th NA’s second session.

New Zealand has committed to continuing its official development assistance (ODA) for Việt Nam, especially in education, human resources, agriculture and rural development, and climate change response. 

A ceremony was held to mark the 50^th anniversary of a massacre committed by South Korean soldiers in the central province of Quảng Ngãi’s Bình Sơn District yesterday.