Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries last weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.
-PrimeMinister Pham Minh Chinh and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese agreedto elevate their countries’ relations to a new level in the future during theirtalks in Hanoi on June 4 morning.
Welcoming PM Albanese on his official visit toVietnam on June 3-4, the host leader said the trip, which takes place amid the50th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic relations and five yearssince the establishment of the Strategic Partnership, will create a new impetusfor bilateral ties.Read full text
-Followingtheir talks, PM Chinh and his Australian counterpart witnessed the signing ofcooperation documents and co-chaired a press briefing.
PM Chinh said the talks were a success with twosides acknowledging the sound and effective development of the ties between thetwo countries.Read full text
-The same day, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received leader of theAustralian Labour Party and Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese inHanoi.
Welcoming Albanese on his official visit toVietnam when the two countries are marking the 50th anniversary of theirdiplomatic ties, Trong affirmed the importance Vietnam attaches to therelations with Australia and highly valued the strong, substantive, andcomprehensive development of bilateral cooperation over the past years.Read full text
-PresidentVo Van Thuong also received the Australian Prime Minister, who is on a two-dayofficial visit to Vietnam starting June 3.
The state leader appreciated Australia's provisionof stable official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam and its support inthe prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic through timely grant ofvaccines in large quantities.Read full text
-Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue met with the visiting AustralianPrime Minister Anthony Albanese in Hanoi on June 4.
The two leaders voiced their delight that Vietnamand Australia have built strategic trust and close cooperation in multiple sphereover the 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations.Read full text
-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanesevisited and engaged in an exchange with the women’s football teams of the twocountries in Hanoi on June 4.
The activity, part of Albanese’s official visit toVietnam on June 3 - 4, followed the two PMs’ talks and joint press conferenceearlier the same day.Read full text
-Earlierafter his arrival in Vietnam on June 3, PM Albanese had lunch at an eatery inHanoi’s Old Quarter, where he tried the world-famous Vietnamese sandwich"banh mi", a favourite street food of many Vietnamese people andforeign tourists, and drank "bia hoi", a locally brewed beer oftenused by Hanoians on hot summer days.Read full text
-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 3 asked ministries,agencies and localities to push the three engines of export, investment andconsumption in order to spur the country's economic growth in the time ahead.
Speaking at an online regular meeting between theGovernment and localities, the leader stressed the need to remove obstacles toproduction and business, and help enterprises in administrative procedures,interest rates and market expansion.Read full text
-The45th anniversary of the Vietnam-United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)partnership for sustainable development was held on June 2 evening in Hanoi.
The ceremony, co-organised by the Ministry ofPlanning and Investment and UNDP, marked an important milestone in the twosides’ cooperation.Read full text
- Aforum of overseas Vietnamese women, the first of its kind, took place inBudapest, Hungary, on June 3, gathering nearly 250 delegates from 21 countries.
With its theme revolving around the preservationof Vietnamese values and international integration in the 4th industrialrevolution era, the Vietnamese Women’s Forum in Europe was an initiative of theassociation of Vietnamese women in Hungary.Read full text
-Theindex of industrial production (IIP) in May increased by 2.2% against theprevious month, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Compared to last year, the index inched up 0.1%,with power production and distribution as well as waste/wastewater managementand treatment expanding 5% and 6.8%, and processing-manufacturing and miningshrinking by 0.5% and 2.9%, respectively.Read full text
- Aninvestment promotion conference was held in Tokyo on June 2 to call forJapanese investment in localities of Vietnam.
The event drew the participation of leaders of the Vietnamese Ministry ofForeign Affairs, Embassy of Vietnam in Japan, representatives of fourlocalities, namely Can Tho city, and Kon Tum, Bac Lieu and Thua Thien-Hueprovinces, and businesses of the two countries. It was part of the activitiesto mark the 50th founding anniversary of Vietnam-Japan diplomatic ties.Read full text
-Adelegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence led by DeputyMinister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien is attending the 20th Shangri-LaDialogue that officially opened in Singapore on June 3.
Organised by the International Institute forStrategic Studies (IISS), the dialogue has brought together more than 550delegates who are defence and security officers and scholars from 41 countries.Read full text
-TheVietnam Festival 2023 with the theme of "Hope" opened at Yoyogi Parkin Tokyo on June 3.
Hosted by the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan, the event is one of the majorcelebrations for the 50th founding anniversary of Vietnam-Japan diplomaticties.Read full text/.
