Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Lopez Locsin co-chaired the ninth meeting of the Vietnam-Philippines Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation in Manila on March 6.
The Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei is actively coordinating with officials from China’s Taiwan to carry out search and rescue activities and update information on Vietnamese workers trapped in a fire in Taiwan on December 14.
Philippine authorities have exhumed a cadaver that was supposed to be the body of Pham Minh Tuan, captain of ship Royal 16 who was kidnapped in the Philippines on November 11, 2016.
The Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines and Philippine agencies on November 29 held a ceremony to send five Vietnamese fishermen and one fishing boat from Phu Yen province back to Vietnam.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc participated in an array of activities as part of the 31st ASEAN Summit and related summits in Manila, the Philipines, from November 12 to 14.
The Foreign Ministry has taken measures to protect Vietnamese citizens in the Philippines after receiving reports that the Philippine coast guard force fired at fishing vessel PY 96173 TS of Phu Yen province, killing two and seizing a number of other fishermen.
Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong had bilateral meetings with leaders of the Lao, Thai Cambodian parliaments on the sidelines of the 38th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.
The Philippines’ navy handed over to the Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines a Vietnamese sailor who was recently rescued from the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf by the host country’s military.
A representative from the Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines on August 22 visited Do Trung Hieu, a kidnapped sailor who was recently rescued by the host country’s agencies.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the murder of two Vietnamese citizens by the terrorist Abu Sayyaf group, Deputy Minister Vu Hong Nam stated in his interview granted to the press.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged the staff of the Vietnamese Embassy to work harder to deepen the strategic partnership between Vietnam and the Philippines.
The Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines has contact with authorised local agencies to verify the information of six Vietnamese sailors’ kidnap and seek measures to rescue the victims.
Relevant agencies have repatriated 16 Vietnamese nationals aboard a cargo ship seized in the Philippines, while also working to return 15 fishermen who violated the waters of Papua New Guinea.
President Truong Tan Sang had bilateral meetings with leaders of some Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies in Manila, the Philippines, on Nov. 19 on the fringe of the APEC Summit.
A Vietnamese businesswoman who was arrested in the Philippines for carrying a bullet in her purse has returned home, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh has said.
A working team from the Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines on
November 14 reached Tacloban city in Leyte province to bring relief
goods and money to two Vietnamese families stuck in the locality due to
typhoon Haiyan.
Officials from the Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines arrived in
Cebu late November 13 bringing along 300kg of relief goods for
Vietnamese nationals living in areas hit by typhoon Haiyan.
The Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines has got in touch with about
100 Vietnamese citizens stranded in Tacloban city, Leyte province, the
Philippines due to the recent devastating super typhoon Haiyan.
The Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines has not recorded any deaths
in the Vietnamese community there caused by super typhoon Haiyan, which
has almost flattened the country’s central Tacloban city.
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