Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hong Xiaoyong on Thursday met with Vietnamese Minister of Defense Ngo Xuan Lich, during which the two sides agreed to further strengthen military cooperation, a Chinese embassy official told Xinhua on Friday.
US President Barack Obama heads to Asia tomorrow on a week-long visit which is likely to be notable more for its historical symbolism rather than any concrete outcomes.
On July 7, 2015 at the White House, Barack Obama met with Nguyen Phu Trong and pledged to make his first visit to Vietnam “sometime in the future (Nakamura, 2015).” It was the first time a general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) had visited the US, which was supposed to be a step of significant progress towards the reconciliation of the two former enemies.
The Republic of Korea (RoK) will receive some 3,500 Vietnamese workers in 2016 after three years of limiting the reception of Vietnamese labors due to high rates of illegal workers.
Vietnamese Prime Minister (PM) Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith on Sunday agreed to work with other countries and international organizations to manage and use the Mekong water resources in a sustainable and effective manner.
A senior U.S. diplomat on Tuesday laid out five areas in connection vehicle with an upcoming visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to Vietnam later this month.
"Japan is willing to support if Vietnam has concrete request in adaptation to climate change, including drought and saline intrusion," said Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday.
Vietnam and Laos pledged to closely coordinate with each other as well as with other countries and organizations in the management and sustainable use of water in the Mekong River, said Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang on Tuesday.
The General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachit started his first overseas visit to Vietnam on Monday after being elected.
U.S. President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Vietnam is one of the most important diplomatic events of the United State in 2016, said U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday.
Laos's National Assembly on Wednesday (April 20) appointed Communist Party chief Bounnhang Vorachit as the country's new president and named foreign minister Thongloun Sisoulith as prime minister.
The 220kV Xekaman1-Pleiku2 transmission line in Vietnam's territory, which transmits electricity from Laos to Vietnam, has been completed, Vietnam's National Power Transmission Corporation (EVN NPT) said Wednesday.
Over the past few days, the Vietnamese legislature has replaced top leaders of the country, including the house speaker, the president and the prime minister at the ongoing 11th session of the 13th National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam in capital Hanoi.
"During class time, we teach our pupils about the friendship between Vietnam and China," said Dang Thi Lan Huong, principal of Kim Dong primary school in Vietnam's northern Yen Bai province on Friday.
The 18th ASEAN-India Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM) is taking place in Vietnam's capital Hanoi from Thursday to Friday, a Vietnamese official announced on Thursday.
A Southwest China hydropower station has increased water discharges to up to 2,190 cubic meters per second on a trans-boundary river, in order to provide emergency water supply to Vietnam and other countries in the drought-afflicted Southeast Asian region, Chen Lei, Minister of Water Resources said on Wednesday.
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