Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa
left Ho Chi Minh City on Oct. 24, wrapping up a three-day official
visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart,
Nguyen Minh Triet.
Vietnam, as a co-ordinator of
ASEAN-China relations between 2009-2012, will make all efforts to
contribute to increasing bilateral strategic partnership to a new
level, for peace, development and prosperity in the region.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong
said on Oct. 22 that efforts from all strata of society are needed
to combat crimes related to the trafficking of women and children.
Vietnam and the Republic of Korea have
agreed to elevate their relationship to that of a strategic cooperative
partnership for peace, stability and development.
Vietnam continues to support the role
of UN agencies and the international community in helping Ivory
Coast promote national stability and reconstruction, said a Vietnamese
diplomat at the UN.
The national fight against drug crimes
has made significant strides this year, said a workshop that brought
together representatives of relevant southern agencies in the Central
Highlands province of Lam Dong on Sept. 24.
A delegation of the High Command of the Border Guard of
Vietnam, headed by its Deputy Commander Nguyen Phuoc Loi, is paying a
friendship visit to Cambodia from Sept. 22-25.
Regional police forces are putting
their heads together in HCM City to discuss
measures to better utilise a shared database system in the fight
against trans-national crimes.
A project to restore the bell tower at
Tam Toa Church in Dong Hoi city, in Quang Binh province,
is all-but complete, helping to serve visitors and remind young
generations of US war crimes.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet on August 27 urged the
Central Highlands province of Lam Dong to boost judicial reform and
increase the ability and qualifications of its justices.
Ambassador to the US talks about former Lt. William Calley’s public apology on the mass
killings in My Lai and the
level of cooperation that both countries have had.
Nguyen Ba Thanh, secretary of the Party
Committee of the central port city of Da Nang, on Aug. 5, had an open
discussion with 130 husbands who have committed domestic violence.
Police will pursue charges in a case
involving seven people accused of causing public disorder at a war
vestige site in the central province of Quang Binh.
Nearly 200 children from HCM City clubs and schools posed
questions and offered suggestions about protecting children’s rights at
a two-day forum that ended in HCM City on July 20.
The Vietnamese and Thai Prime Ministers renewed their determination to further
deepen the already warm relations between the two countries and effectively
expand their wide-ranging cooperation in the coming time.