Vietnam and Thailand convened their 11th bilateral conference on drug prevention and control cooperation in the central coastal city of Da Nang on April 24.

 Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Chung Sye-kyun on April 24 began a three-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni right after his arrival in the country on April 24.

 Hoang Binh Quan, member of the Party Central Committee and head of the Committee’s Commission for External Relations, is visiting Kazakhstan from April 20 to 25, at the invitation of the ruling Democratic People's Party Nur Otan.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will lead a Vietnamese delegation to the 30th ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Manila, the Philippines from April 28-29.

 Vietnam hopes to learn from Singapore’s experience in the management of environment and water resources as well as environmental quality improvement and green city development, stated President Tran Dai Quang.

 Acting President of the Republic of Korea Hwang Kyo-ahn said he evaluates growing strategic partnership with Vietnam while receiving Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Vu Tu, who came to present his credentials on April 24.

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and visiting Foreign Minister of New Zealand Murray McCully have agreed to continue fostering development momentum to lift the bilateral relations to a higher level during their talks yesterday. 

 The official visit of Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Chung Sye-kyun from April 24-26, aims to promote the strategic partnership between the two nations.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his spouse officially begin their official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia from April 24-25 at the invitation of his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen.

The Supreme People’s Procuracies of Vietnam and China signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in Beijing on April 23 within the framework of the Vietnamese procuracy delegation’s working visit to China.

 The National Assembly’s Standing Committee will ask the National Assembly to consider the deputy title of Vo Kim Cu given his wrongdoings in the Formosa marine environmental incident, said NA Secretary General Nguyen Hanh Phuc on April 22.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed with the draft content of the ASEAN Leaders’ declaration on the role of the civil service as catalyst to achieve ASEAN Vision 2025.

 The Republic of Korea’s (RoK) National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun will start his official visit to Viet Nam today.

A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam attended a working group meeting in Moscow from April 21-23 to prepare for the 19th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties and celebrations of 100 years of Russia’s October Revolution.

 A visit to Cambodia from April 24-25 by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will be his first official trip to the neighbouring country in the post of the Government leader of Vietnam. 

 The ninth meeting of the 14th National Assembly Standing Committee concluded in Hanoi on April 22.

 he foreign ministers of G7 have called for the strict enforcement of the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling, which rejected China’s groundless claims of “historical rights” over the waters within the so-called “nine-dash line” in the East Sea.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a meeting with Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Hugo Hanz Siblesz in Hanoi on April 21.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has suggested Ireland prompt the European Union (EU) to soon sign and ratify the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UVFTA) and recognise Vietnam’s market economy.