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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong asked for New Zealand (NZ)’s support in improving the value of farm produce during a meeting with NZ Minister of Agriculture, Biosecurity, Food Safety, and Rural Communities Damien O’Connor in Hanoi on August 29. 

The Ho Chi Minh City authorities will support enhanced cooperation with Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, especially in tourism, automatic technology, and high-tech agriculture, Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Nguyen Thien Nhan, said on August 29.

President Mauricio Macri says ‘lack of trust from the markets’ forces him to ask for help as peso weakens and inflation runs at 30 percent.

Delegates from the Netherlands’Agriterra agricultural development support organization shared their experience in coping with impacts of globalization in developing cooperatives, agriculture and rural areas during a recent workshop in Hanoi.

New Zealand Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth, Damien O’Connor, is on a three-day visit to Vietnam that aims to strengthen bilateral relations in several areas, particularly agriculture and trade. 
 

Australia could have a free trade agreement with Indonesia in place as soon as this week with Scott Morrison expected to head to Jakarta on his first overseas visit as prime minister.

Germany will help Vietnam improve the quality of its workforce to meet the requirements of Industry 4.0 under a public-private Memorandum of Understanding.

India and Singapore signed the second protocol amending their Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) in New Delhi on August 24.

Vietnam always treasures and wants to further develop its traditional friendship with Sri Lanka, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said on August 27.

An event connecting technology ventures of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) was held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 22 to strengthen cooperation and trade activities between businesses of the two countries. 

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen believes the European Union will be able to overcome Brexit, he said at the European Forum Alpbach on August 25.

President Tran Dai Quang’s state visit to Ethiopia from August 23-25 is his first visit to the African country, marking a historic milestone in the relationship between the two countries.

Tran Quoc Vuong, Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, on August 22 asked China’s Shaanxi province to enhance cooperation with Vietnamese localities and improve the efficiency of collaboration in economy, trade, tourism, and culture.

The U.S. and China escalated their trade war on Thursday, implementing punitive 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of the other’s goods.

(VEN) - Africa and the Middle East, with a total population of more than 1.6 billion people and large purchasing power, are emerging as potential markets for Vietnam’s agricultural and fishery products.

Bilateral trade turnover between Vietnam and the Czech Republic in the first half of 2018 recorded an expansion of nearly 14 percent compared to the same period last year, marking a successively stable growth rate of over 10 percent per year since 2015. 

Greece has officially ended its three-year bailout program.

A get-together was held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 21 by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations to mark the 45th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam - Canada diplomatic relations (August 21, 1973-2018).

U.S. President Donald Trump does not expect much progress from trade talks with China this week in Washington, he told Reuters on Monday.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President of China Xi Jinping has affirmed that the Chinese Party, Government, and people attach great importance to and are willing to work, together with their Vietnamese counterparts, to continuously consolidate and develop relations between the two Parties and countries.

Vietnam congratulates Samdech Techo Hun Sen on his re-appointment as Prime Minister of Cambodia, Spokesperson of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang told reporters on August 18.

Thailand will ban imports of 432 types of scrap electronics within six months, an official said on Thursday.

(VEN) - Under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association organized a conference on the impact of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) on Vietnam’s garment and textile sector. The event attracted the interest of economists and businesses.

Vietnam wishes to cooperate with developed countries in general and Australia in particular regarding climate change response, head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh said on August 16. 

Following the historic summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the analysts were expecting a new page in the US-Russia relations. However, Washington has decided to impose new sanctions against Moscow and the two sides have repeatedly criticised each other in recent days, thus pushing their bilateral ties back into a state of tension.

(VEN) - China is one of Vietnam’s largest trade partners and also a key export market. In recent years, trade turnover between China and Vietnam has seen average growth of more than 20 percent per year.

The Vietnam Directorate of Vocational Education and the Vietnam -Australia Human Resource Development Partnership (Aus4Skills) signed a cooperation agreement in Ho Chi Minh City on August 14 to implement a project promoting the engagement of businesses in vocational training within the fields of transportation and logistics.

The death toll from an earthquake that struck Lombok Island of Indonesia on August 5 has exceeded 430, while economic losses are estimated at over US$340 million as of August 13.

(VEN) - The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency will boost its efforts to promote bilateral trade with Argentina by organizing forums, fairs, exhibitions and exchanges between the two countries. Despite the growing trade between the sides, Vietnam has posted a trade deficit with its Latin American ally.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies will go ahead with implementing a more streamlined digital process for import and export clearances, making trade easier, cheaper and more feasible for businesses in the Asia-Pacific.