A forum on the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025 Initiative and Project Concepts and the 8th ASEAN Connectivity Symposium took place in Alabang, the Philippines, from July 12-14, according to Vietnam’s delegation to ASEAN.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has assured Governor of Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture Kuroiwa Yuji that the Vietnamese government is stepping up the improvement of the domestic business climate. 

 Cambodian Defence Minister Tea Bank and Commander of the Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia (RGC) Sao Sokha have valued the valuable assistance of Vietnam’s Defence Ministry for the RGC and other armed forces of Cambodia in general.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged ambassadors andheads of Vietnamese diplomatic agencies abroad for the 2017-2020 term to work hard to promote the image of Vietnam to the world at a meeting with them on July 14.

 Vietnam and Singapore have shared concern over terrorism in the region and the world and affirmed willingness to fight terrorism and extreme violence. 

HCM City is willing to create all favourable conditions for Japanese investors, including those from Kanagawa prefecture, to operate effectively in the city, especially in the fields of mechanics, information technology and plastics.

HCM City wants to foster ties with the Republic of Korea in education and training, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong told Chairman of the Korea-Asia Friendship Foundation Choi Jae-sung. 

 The central province of Quang Tri and two bordering Lao provinces - Savanakhet and Salavan - have signed an agreement on cooperation in border affairs and border marker planting for 2017-2018.

Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and a Foreign Ministry delegation visited the Lao Embassy in Hanoi on July 15 for a joint celebration of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship and Solidarity Year 2017.

 Vietnam’s Consulate General in Perth and the West Australian Vietnam Business Council (WAVBC) on July 13 held a workshop to promote multifaceted cooperation between Vietnam and the Western Australian State, especially in the field of business.

 Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong hosted a reception on July 14 for Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who was Mexican President from 1988 to 1994.

 The President Office yesterday announced 12 new laws that were approved during the third plenary session of the 14th National Assembly.

 President Tran Dai Quang hosted separate receptions on July 13 for the newly-accredited Ambassadors of Spain and Yemen who came to present credential letters to him.

Tsutomu Koizumi, head of Japan’s delegation to the first Senior Officials’ Meetings of the APEC forum held in Hanoi in February 2017, has highly valued Vietnam’s efforts in hosting the forum’s meetings.

 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he will direct authorised agencies to work with Vietnam on the signing of an agreement on fishery cooperation while meeting Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh on July 13.

 The 14th National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) wrapped up its 12th session in Hanoi, on July 12, under the chair of NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s trip to Germany and the Netherlands, from July 5-11, was a success with numerous deals between Vietnam and the two countries signed, said a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry official. 

 Virginia treasures and wants to intensify cooperation with Vietnam, especially in economics, trade, and education and training, said the US State’s Governor Terry McAuliffe.

 There is no “prohibited zone” in the inspection and execution of the Party’s disciplinary measures, stressed a conference in Hanoi on July 12.

 The Law on Amendments and Supplements to Several Articles of the Penal Code and five other laws were made public by the Presidential Office a at a press conference on July 12.