Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
- The State visit to China by Party General Secretary and President To Lam from August 18-20 is successful in every aspect, playing a crucial role in building the Vietnam-China community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, contributing to regional and global peace, stability, and development, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has remarked.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam, his spouse, and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam paid a state visit to China from August 18-20, at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President of China Xi Jinping and his spouse. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, head of the Steering Committee for reviewing and untangling knots in the legal document system, presided over a meeting on law-building between permanent Government members and representatives of ministries and sectors on August 20.
Participants listened to reports and discussed the policy contents of the draft Law on Management and Investment of State Capital in Enterprises; the draft Law on Corporate Income Tax (amended); the draft Law on Special Consumption Tax (amended), the draft Law on Teachers; the draft Law on Digital Technology Industry; the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Vietnam People's Army Officers. Read full story
- Vietnam and China have issued a joint statement on further strengthening the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries and building a Vietnam-China community with a shared future on the occasion of state visit to China by Party General Secretary and State President To Lam from August 18-20. Read full story
- Global Times, a publication of the People's Daily - an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, has undertaken extensive coverage of Vietnamese Party General Secretary and President To Lam's state visit to China from August 18-20.
An article published on August 20 quoted Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping during talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Lam as saying that Lam's first state visit to China, also the first foreign visit in his capacity as head of the Vietnamese Party and State, holds special significance and reflects the high priority and importance that both Parties and countries place on Vietnam-China relations. Xi noted that it is a crucial time for both nations to elevate bilateral relations to a new level, with substantive outcomes in all aspects. Read full story
- The Vietnam-Japan agricultural trade and investment policy dialogue took place in Tokyo on August 20, aiming to capitalise on untapped opportunities in this sector between the two Asian nations.
The event was co-hosted by the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan, the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), and the ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC). Read full story
- General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Vu Viet Trang hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 20 for Director General of the Public Relations Department (PRD) of Thailand Sudruetai Lertkasem.
General Director Trang expressed her delight at the significant outcomes of the 17th Joint Technical Committee (JTC) meeting between VNA and PRD earlier the same day, which helped promote the substantive ties between VNA and PRD. She thanked the PRD for its support of VNA's correspondents in Thailand, enabling them to effectively carry out their tasks. Read full story
-Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang held a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Senior Lieutenant General Dong Jun on August 20, on the occasion of the state visit by Party General Secretary and President To Lam and his spouse to China.
During the meeting, Giang stressed that the top Vietnamese leader's visit to China, his first foreign trip after being elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, reflects Vietnam's high priority on developing friendly cooperative relations with China in its foreign policy./. Read full story
