
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on February 7 held a reception for a delegation of overseas Vietnamese (OV) who returned home to join the “Xuan Que huong 2018” (Homeland Spring 2018) program.

A get-together to celebrate the Lunar New Year (Tet) was held in Hanoi on February 6 by the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) and the Committee for Foreign Non-governmental Organisation Affairs (COMINGO)

Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan attended a Tet celebration program in the northern province of Hai Duong on February 6.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of Vietnam ASEAN SOM, attended the ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting (ASEAN SOM) which opened on February 5 in Singapore to prepare contents for the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM Retreat).

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, accompanied by a delegation of high-ranking Vietnamese Government officials, arrived in Vientiane, Laos on February 4 to kick start his two-day visit to the neighbouring country as he attends and co-chairs the 40th meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-Governmental Committee from February 4-5.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Nguyen Hai Bang asked the Thai Government to create favourable conditions for Vietnamese businesses, as well as the Vietnamese community living and working in the country during a reception hosted by Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha in Bangkok on January 31.

President Tran Dai Quang laid a wreath and offered incense at the Ben Duoc Monument in the Cu Chi district of Ho Chi Minh City on January 31 to commemorate the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Mau Than General Offensive and Uprising in spring 1968.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had bilateral meetings with leaders of Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar on the sidelines of the ASEAN – India Commemorative Summit in New Delhi, India, on January 25.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with top executives of several leading Indian businesses, namely Tata, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), ONGC, and vDoIT shortly after arriving in New Delhi on January 24.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his spouse left Hanoi for India on January 24 to attend the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit and the 69th anniversary of the Republic Day in India at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue and a Vietnamese delegation on January 23 morning attended the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and a high level Vietnamese delegation will pay an official visit to India and attend the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit in New Delhi, from January 24-26.

The Hanoi Declaration on a New Vision for Asia – Pacific Parliamentary Partnership was approved at the APPF-26’s final plenary session in Hanoi on January 20 afternoon.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his spouse will attend the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit and the 69th anniversary of the Republic Day in India from January 24-26 as guests of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan hosted a reception for President of the Senate of Malaysia’s Parliament S. Vigneswaran M. Sanasee on January 18, who is in Hanoi to attend the 26th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26).

The 26th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26), themed “Parliamentary partnership for peace, innovation and sustainable development”, is to open in Hanoi on January 18 with three key meetings scheduled for the day.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who is the President of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) for the 2017-2018 tenure, chaired a dress rehearsal for the 26th Annual Meeting of the APPF (APPF-26) on January 16.

How to develop in a rapid and sustainable way in order to escape the middle-income trap remains a major challenge facing Vietnam’s economy, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc while addressing the second Vietnam Economic Forum in Hanoi on January 11.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc called for formation of regulations to manage operation of reservoirs along the Mekong river while attending the second Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Cambodia’s Phnom Penh International Airport at noon on January 10, beginning activities within the framework of the second Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) Leaders’ Meeting.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will attend the second Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on January 10, at the invitation of his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a video conference which summed up the operation of the agricultural and rural development sector in 2017 and worked out tasks for 2018 on January 14 in Ha Noi.

Head of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Commission for Inspection Tran Quoc Vuong lauded people-to-people diplomacy during a conference in Hanoi on January 4 reviewing activities of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 2 started his first visit in 2018 by a working session with authorities of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, in which he required the province to take full advantages of its historical and cultural heritages as the former imperial capital.