Vietnam Today

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on December 14 attended a ceremony to put up the nameplate of the new headquarters of the Vietnamese Embassy in Seoul.

Over the past 90 years, under the leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam has built a unique and special diplomacy of the Ho Chi Minh era with strong “Vietnamese bamboo” characters, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said at the first National Conference on Foreign Affairs in Hanoi on December 14.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the opening of the national festival for innovative startups TECHFEST and Week for Ho Chi Minh City Innovation, Startup and Entrepreneurship WHISE 2021 via videoconference in Hanoi on December 14.

The Vietnamese National Assembly will continue studying policies and laws to create optimal conditions for businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to increase their investments in Vietnam, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue affirmed at a meeting with RoK Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum in Seoul on December 14.

(CPV) – Mr. Pham Xuan Thang, PCC member, Secretary of the Hai Duong Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People’s Council, has signed and awarded 4 memorandums of understanding (MoU) on investment cooperation with Korean organizations and businesses.

The exhibition week attracted nearly 85 typical food and food production enterprises of Ho Chi Minh City with 716 items and 4,700 products on display.

The Lao Ministry of Health announced on December 12 that a total of 1,274 new COVID-19 cases, all community infections, have been recorded in 18 provinces and cities across the country over the past 24 hours.

The delegation of ASEAN Ambassadors to Turkey recently had a working trip to Gaziantep province to greet the Governor and Mayor, and work with the Provincial Chamber of Commerce and Industry to strengthen the relationship between ASEAN and Turkey's locality, thereby introducing and promoting this province’s trade and investment activities with ASEAN countries.

Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of Vietnam to the United Nations, welcomed efforts by the principals and staff of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the implementation of various provisions of the UN Security Council Resolution 2529 (2020), during a meeting of the UNSC on December 13.

Mr. Veeramalla Anjaiah, a senior journalist of the Jakarta Post and a senior researcher at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) of Indonesia, highly appreciated Vietnam's foreign achievements after 35 years of the Doi Moi (renewal) process.

Vietnam has successfully integrated into the international community, stressed Jean Pierre Archambault, General Secretary of the France-Vietnam Friendship Association (AAFV).

The Vietnam Festival in Japan was recently organized at Ueno Park in the capital Tokyo with the participation of many high-ranking officials of the Government and National Assembly of Japan.

In 2021, Malaysia underwent many periods of blockages due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Vietnamese businesses’ activities in Malaysia in general and the Vietnam Malaysia Business Association (VMBIZ) have not been halted.

The National Conference on Foreign Affairs opened in both in-person and virtual forms on December 14, under the chair of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Park Byeong-Seug expressed their support for upgrading the relationship between the two countries to a comprehensive strategic partnership during their talks in Seoul on December 13.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Park Byeong-seug attended a Vietnam - RoK Business Forum in Seoul on December 13.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc hailed new economic models in the north central province of Ha Tinh and urged the province to promote development in line with the three-horse economic model namely production, consumption and export.

Despite the unpredictable developments of the COVID-19 epidemic, the value of Vietnam’s M&A market still reached 8.8 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2021 with more than 500 deals, an increase of 18% against 2020.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group on December 13 kicked off construction of the Quang Trach I Thermal Power Plant in Quang Dong commune, the central province of Quang Binh.

(CPV) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has recently presented the 2021 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) in the Climate Innovation category to Australis Aquaculture, an American company that has pioneered climate-smart ocean farming in the marine tropics of central Vietnam.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with the Asharqia Chamber of Commerce, held an event in Dammam city to promote Vietnamese export products, including selected products from nearly 120 businesses sent to the Embassy.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Brazil and the Sao Paulo Trade Association in Sao Paulo have recently organized a conference to promote trade cooperation between businesses of the two countries.

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam Park Noh Wan has said that the RoK and Vietnam have so far considered each other brothers, which means that the relationship between the two countries in recent years has reached the highest standard of diplomatic relations through comprehensive cooperation in all fields.

Solutions to enhance coordination and promote cooperation in different areas that Vietnamese localities have strengths and potential for cooperation with the European Union (EU) were worked out at the workshop entitled “Increasing cooperation between some Vietnamese localities and EU” held in Hanoi on December 12.

Over the years, Vietnam's peacekeeping force has made many outstanding contributions, having marked many bold highlights and been recognized by the United Nations (UN) and international friends.

During the Doi moi (Renewal) process, the diplomatic sector has gained important achievements, and left many outstanding hallmarks on foreign affairs, thus helping to build the fortune, potential, position and international prestige that Vietnam has never had before, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has affirmed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 13 held the 20th National Conference on Local Diplomacy, with the aim of continuing to reform and increase the efficiency of foreign affairs and international integration of localities.

Ngo Minh Long, a 12th grader from Hon Gai High School in the northern province of Quang Ninh, brought home the first prize of the individual exam at level B1 for the Vietnamese student group at French Olympiad 2021.

Localities nationwide have assessed and announced pandemic levels to safely and flexibly adapt to as well as effectively control the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three research books on international relations were launched on December 10 as part of the cooperative project in selection and publication between the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation (KAS) in Vietnam.