The successful first general election on January 6, 1946 went down in history of Vietnam’s revolution as a turning point, featuring the country as an independent state and a people’s democratic state.
Indonesian police on December 31 arrested three people with suspected links to IS during an operation in Central Sulawesi province to hunt for Santoso, the country’s most-wanted man.
Threats to information security are becoming more serious and may be used as a tool against the State to attack important infrastructure, freeze Governmental activities or destroy the economy.
Security agencies in provinces and cities in Indonesia have coordinated with the army to implement measures to ensure security for the local election, especially in the context of security threats.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has reassured Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that Vietnam considers Japan a leading and long-term partner.
Vietnam and the US have made clear their viewpoints and discussed
candidly pragmatic benefits of bilateral cooperation during Party
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s recently-concluded US visit,
according to official members of the Party leader’s entourage.
Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang said the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) agreement was among important matters discussed during
the visit.
Vietnam and the US adopted on July 7 (local time) a joint vision
statement between the two countries on the occasion of the official
visit to the US by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong from July 6-10 at the invitation of
the US administration.
The statement recognises the positive and
substantive developments in many areas of cooperation over the past 20
years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two
countries, and affirms continued pursuit of a deepened, sustained, and
substantive relationship on the basis of respect for the United Nations
Charter, international law, and each other’s political systems.
Asian and European scholars shared their approaches to territorial
disputes and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas
(UNCLOS) during a June 4-5 workshop in the northern province of Quang
Ninh.
Vietnam’s Defence Ministry delegation held a series of bilateral
meetings with representatives from the United States Pacific Command
(USPACOM) and defence ministries of Spain, New Zealand and Germany to
discuss maritime security on May 30.
The 2015 Pacific Area Security Sector Working Group (PASSWG-2015)
inaugurated its working session in Da Nang City on May 25 under the
theme “Security for a people-centred ASEAN”.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Ambassador to Malaysia Pham Cao Phong
attended the second ASEAN-EU high-level dialogue on maritime security
cooperation, which took place in Kuala Lumpur on May 4-6.
Vietnam has recently become the main target of a series of large-scale
cyber spying activities, such as LURID, Operation Shady RAT and the
Byzantine Hades attacks.
General Tran Dai Quang, Vietnam’s Minister of Public Security, held
talks with the Cuban Interior Minister, Albelardo Colome Ibrarra, in
Havana on March 23, during which they agreed to increase the sharing of
information and experience in coping with traditional and
non-traditional security threats.
Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang has appreciated the United
Nations’ support for Vietnam in fields, especially the development and
implementation of millennium development goals.
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