Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on March 25 that he has approved a budget of 15 million USD to purchase armoured vehicles for the country’s peacekeeping forces operating in Mali.
Vietnam welcomes and creates all possible favourable conditions for investors across the world, including Macquarie Capital of Australia, to invest in Vietnam and cooperate with Vietnamese partners in developing infrastructure, and clean and renewable energy, said Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.
A seminar discussing opportunities for the Vietnamese fisheries sector brought by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) was held in Toronto, Canada on March 21.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on March 19 that a special court will be set up to address promptly corruption-related cases in Southeast Asian nation.
The Vietnam Construction and Import-Export Joint Stock Corporation (Vinaconex) signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in developing projects with CPG International Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore-based CPG Group, on March 5.
An exchange between young officers of Vietnamese and Indian armies took place in Hanoi on March 4.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Jong-un boarded a train back to Pyongyang from Dong Dang station in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son on March 2 afternoon, concluding his five-day stay in Vietnam for the second DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit and the official friendship visit to the Southeast Asian nation.
Successfully hosting the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Vietnam, the Southeast Asian nation is among the world’s top countries with great diplomacy, according to Professor Lee Woong-hyeon from the Korean University’s Division of International Studies.
The central city of Da Nang is pushing ahead with investment attraction this year while working drastically to facilitate major projects that will have a strong influence on the local socio-economic development.
A Vietnamese cuisine week was held at the Ascott Dhaka hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from February 17 to 28, drawing a large number of gastronomy lovers.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Kevin McAllister, Executive Vice President of the US’s Boeing Company and President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, in Hanoi on February 27.
Vietnam is taking full advantage of the second DPRK-USA Summit in Hanoi to promote its tourism as the whole world is paying special attention to the event and the host country, said a tourism official.
The armoured train of Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un crossed into the Chinese border town of Dandong after 9pm on February 23 (local time) ahead of his second summit with US President Donald Trump in Vietnam, according to international media reports.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh paid a short visit to Germany on February 20-21 but it proved fruitful beyond expectations, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Nguyen Minh Vu.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Ngo Duc Manh had a working session on February 21 with the Russia-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group at the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
More than 1.5 million people have registered for advance voting ahead of the March 24 general election in Thailand while 85,000 people officially signed up as overseas voters, Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) Secretary General Jarungvith Phumma said.
Trade between Vietnam and Russia was estimated at 4.57 billion USD in 2018, up 28.6 percent year on year, partly thanks to the enforcement of the free trade agreement (FTA) between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).
Vietnam has now begun officially exporting its mangoes to the US market, after the US Department of Agriculture gave permission for the import of fresh mangoes from the Southeast Asian nation in 2017.
