Việt Nam News

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân has asked the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn to improve its investment environment to attract more investors.

Việt Nam’s international integration will be intensified over the next five years, Deputy Foreign Minister Bùi Thanh Sơn said at a roundtable discussion in Hà Nội Friday.

President Trần Đại Quang has asked the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to continue providing soft loans to Việt Nam to realise its socio-development goals.

The ministries of planning and investment of Việt Nam and Laos should work to foster economic links in key sectors including trade, finance, transportation and energy, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at his reception for Lao Minister of Planning and Investment Suphan Keomixay in Hà Nội on Friday.
 

The Prime Minister has signed a decision to establish a 39-member National Financial and Monetary Policy Consultation Council led by Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ. 

President Trần Đại Quang and his encourage concluded their two-day State visit to Cambodia yesterday afternoon. 

Việt Nam treasures ties with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), considering the lender one of the top donors in the supply of capital, technical assistance and policy consultation, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told ADB President Takehiko Nakao during a reception in Hà Nội yesterday. 

The special meeting of ASEAN and Chinese foreign ministers has achieved positive results in a friendly and constructive spirit, contributing to strengthening mutual trust, promoting co-operation and efforts to deal with common challenges. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc called on Việt Nam and Thailand to redouble their efforts in order to bring bilateral trade to US$20 billion in 2020.

Swiss President Johann Schneider Ammann and Vietnamese Vice President Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh affirmed the importance of increased co-operation during their meeting in Bern on Tuesday. 

Viet Nam will do its utmost to bolster its traditional friendship and co-operation with Cuba, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said during a reception in Hà Nội yesterday for Cuban Minister of Construction Rene Antonio Mesa Villafana.

Regional co-operation on issues relating to keeping the peace and protecting security, human rights, international trade and investment, and environmental protection were discussed at the two-day regional conference of the Asian Society on International Law (Asiansil) in Hà Nội yesterday.

ASEAN-China relations and the East Sea issue dominated a special meeting of foreign ministers of ASEAN and China in Kunming, in the Chinese province of Yunnan yesterday. 
 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc had separate welcome meetings with the new Ambassadors of Malaysia and Thailand to Việt Nam in Hà Nội yesterday.
 

President Quang starts his visit to Cambodia at the invitation of King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday.

Việt Nam’s total budget revenue in 2014  reached VNĐ1,130 trillion (US$50 billion), of which the estimated tax collection was more than VNĐ877 trillion ($38 billion), an increase of 12 per cent over the planned figure.

Việt Nam and Cambodia have agreed to continue their mutual support and close collaboration in order to strengthen the “good neighbourliness, traditional friendship and comprehensive, sustainable and long-term co-operation” between the two countries, thus bringing pragmatic interests to their people. 

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Yunnan, China, yesterday on the sideline of the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting.