Việt Nam News

President of the India-Vietnam Solidarity Committee in West Bengal State Greetesh Sharma has suggested the two countries further promote bilateral friendship and solidarity.

Speaker of India’s Lower House Sumitra Mahajan and visiting Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân agreed on the need to enhance parliamentary relations during their talks at the Indian parliament’s headquarters in New Delhi late yesterday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated his support for Indian investors to do business in Việt Nam during a meeting with visiting National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân in New Delhi yesterday.

APEC Year 2017 is among focuses of Việt Nam’s external activities in the context of intensive and extensive international integration, stated Deputy Foreign Minister Bùi Thanh Sơn yesterday while chairing the first press conference of Việt Nam on the event. 

National Assembly Chairwoman of Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân met yesterday with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Sitaram Yechury, in New Delhi.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday urged stronger partnerships with Japan in agriculture, labour, culture and tourism sectors.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said he wants Việt Nam and Malaysia to seek measures to boost bilateral trade during his reception for Minister for International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamad in Hà Nội yesterday. 

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.