Foreign Ambassadors to Vietnam have extended Lunar New Year (Tet) wishes to Vietnamese people on the threshold of the country’s biggest traditional festival.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) will expand cooperation with Vietnam in 2019, which will be momentum for the two sides to strengthen their partnership in the time ahead, according to Justin Wood, head of the WEF’s Regional Agenda – Asia Pacific.

The Swiss Sustainable Tourism Programme (SSTP), the first of its kind funded by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) for Vietnam, has officially kicked off, according to the programme’s management board.

The Switzerland-Vietnam Friendship Association has recently held a Solidarity Day with Vietnam in Zurich city to raise funds for its charitable activities.

The first direct flight linking the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City and Switzerland’s northeast city of Zurich has been successfully conducted by the Edelweiss airlines of Switzerland

Swiss Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann announced on November 1 that Switzerland and Indonesia have agreed on a free trade agreement (FTA).

A collection of nearly 70 photos taken by Swiss physician and bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin are placed on display at an exhibition in Morges, Switzerland to commemorate the 75th anniversary of his death (1943-2018).

The Consulate General of Switzerland in Ho Chi Minh City on August 1 organised a reception to mark the 727th anniversary of Swiss National Day (August 1).

Swiss Ambassador to Vietnam Beatrice Maser Mallor has expressed her delight at the two countries’ relations, stressing that Vietnam and Switzerland have cooperated in multiple spheres.

The Vietnamese Journalists Association (VJA) and the Foreign Press Association in Switzerland and Liechtenstein (APES) have agreed to extend the two-year cooperation agreement they reached in late 2017.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam called on Swiss investors to engage in Vietnam’s agricultural sector during a trade and investment promotion forum on agriculture in Zurich, Switzerland, on June 29.

Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament is essential to the world’s peace and security, and the total elimination of nuclear weapons is the only guarantee for countries not to be threatened with or attacked by nuclear weapons.

Vietnam and Switzerland agreed to bolster experience exchange in law building and enforcement, and execution of international treaties under a freshly inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

The Vietnam tourism promotion programme was launched in Zurich, the leading economic and financial centre in the northeast of Switzerland on June 20.