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A workshop was opened in Hanoi on December 27 with a view to beefing up economic cooperation between Vietnam and China.

Laos plans to increase rice exports to China in 2017 after the quality of Lao rice sold to the world largest population market was found satisfactory by Chinese buyers.

Construction officially started on the Laos – China railway in Laos’ northern province of Luang Prabang on December 25.

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) have exchanged experience in Party building work in the context of international integration.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi have agreed to effectively implement cooperation mechanisms between the two foreign ministries.

A high-ranking delegation of the Vietnam Fatherland Front has visited China with a view to enhancing friendship and cooperation with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked Vietnamese and Chinese party officials to share practical experience in Party building and the combat against corruption.

Authorities in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 20 handed over an investment certificate to the China Everbright International Company to build a 47-million-USD waste-to-energy plant.

Vietnam paid 8.27 billion USD on importing equipment and machines from China in the past 11 months of 2016, according to the General Department of Customs.

The first direct flight between Wuhan province, China, and Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong landed at Lien Khuong airport in the province on December 18.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has sent a message of sympathy to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on heavy losses caused by floods in central localities.

Cambodia’s national flag carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) on December 16 commenced direct flights between the Cambodian northwestern province of Siem Reap and China’s Beijing.

Exports of Malaysia to China decreased 7.2 percent year-on-year in the first 10 months, Malaysia’s External Trade Development Corporation said on December 16.

Vietnam opposes all activities that violate its sovereignty as well as militarise and threaten peace, stability, security, safety and freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea.