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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Manila on November 20, beginning his two-day state visit to the Philippines.

Despite complicated changes in the world situation, Vietnam has shown strong performance in stabilizing prices and reining in inflation, keeping the average at only 3.57 percent in the first nine months over 2017.

Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (Sagarpa) and the Mexican Embassy in Vietnam co-hosted a seminar in Hanoi on April 27, discussing business and investment cooperation opportunities in the food sector between Vietnam and Mexico.

A delegation of the Hanoi People’s Committee visited Canada from April 18-20 to learn about the operation of people-elected agencies and development of smart cities in the North American country.

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita expressed his hope to strengthen partnership with Vietnam in many fields during a meeting with Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Quoc Tru who presented his credentials to him in Mali’s capital city of Mamako on March 27.

Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company (BSR) will trade shares on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UPCoM) with code BSR on March 1.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan hosted a reception in Hanoi on January 20 for President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile Fidel Espinoza Sandoval, who said his country’s top priority now is promoting cooperation with Asian-Pacific countries, including Vietnam.

Gender inequality contributes to the spread of HIV and reduces women and girls’ capacity of response to the epidemic, heard a workshop on January 17.

The Gioi Di Dong (Mobile World) Co. Ltd. on January 3 officially finished the acquisition of Dien May Tran Anh (Tran Anh Digital), giving it the ownership of an over-90-percent stake at Tran Anh.

Vietnamese enterprises have reaped successes in Laos thanks to sound business opportunities, market scale and operation quality in the neighbouring country.

Airport infrastructure in the capital city of Bangkok, Thailand has failed to expand fast enough to cope with increasing traffic demand, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

The World Bank (WB) on December 11 released its report “Taking Stock- An Update on Vietnam’s Recent Economic Development”, forecasting the country’s GDP to grow at 6.7 percent this year.

Property developer VinGroup was named the biggest private firm in 2017 by the Vietnam Report Company on December 5.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh highlighted improvements in Vietnam-Kazakhstan trade ties while receiving Kazakh Deputy Foreign Minister Akylbek Kamaldinov on December 4.

Thailand's Department of Foreign Trade (DFT) is preparing to hold a seminar on border trade opportunities with Cambodia for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on December 7.

Vietnam always attaches importance to consolidating and developing its relations with traditional countries, including Slovakia, Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue told his Slovak counterpart Peter Pellegrini.

Various activities are underway in Hanoi to promote early HIV testing so as to achieve the 90 – 90 – 90 targets by 2020, also the theme of this year’s action month for HIV/AIDS prevention and control from November 10 to December 10.

Vietnamese businesses need to get involved in the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s goods value chains via distribution channels and pay more attention to positioning products and label designing to build brands in the market.

Major member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, including the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and China, could make up 74-75 percent of Vietnam’s total garment-textile export turnover in the coming time.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held separate meetings with Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on the sidelines of the 31st ASEAN Summit and related summits in Manila on November 14.