Cyber security unit

Vietnam is undertaking its new responsibility amid strong changes in the regional and the global landscape. While prolonged conflicts in Africa have yet to find lasting solutions, tensions tend to escalate in the Middle East, and potential hotspots may break out in a number of other regions, even in Asia Pacific. Unilateral and violent acts without respect to international laws and with the threat or use of force are posing direct challenges for international peace and security. Though peace, co-operation, and development remain major trends in the world, the regional and global multilateralism mechanisms are facing numerous difficulties, that are not always easy to assess. Strategic collisions among major nations are increasing, resulting in complicated consequences, especially in terms of politics and security which are directly reflected at the UNSC. … [Read more...] about Vietnam takes on primary UN Security Council duties

Lawyers for Canada's attorney general on behalf of the US Justice Department have said they will justify extradition by arguing that the US accusations against Meng would be considered a crime in Canada if they had occurred here -- a key test known as double criminality. … [Read more...] about Charges against Huawei exec ‘fiction,’ defense says at start of extradition

Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has said Vietnam pays special attention to its relations with Middle East and African countries, which have progressed in various areas over the past years. Vietnam established diplomatic ties with South Sudan in February 2019, raising the total number of regional countries that have diplomatic ties with Vietnam to 69 out of 70. Two-way trade neared 19 billion USD in 2019, tripling that in 2008. Vietnam exported farm produce, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, telecommunications, and finance-banking services to the region. The country not only received over 7 billion USD in foreign direct investment from the region but also invested more than 2.6 billion USD there, mostly via Viettel’s telecom projects in several African nations. Cooperation in agriculture, energy, transportation, labour and exchange of experts also improved. With active, proactive and responsible contributions to dealing with … [Read more...] about Vietnam, Middle East-African nations boost relations

The Party’s Politburo and the Secretariat have issued and implemented many resolutions, directives and regulations aiming at enhancing the building and rectifying of the Party; preventing corruption and moral and ideological degradation, 'self-evolution' and 'self-transformation'; building a contingent of reliable officials at all levels; streamlining operations towards efficiency and effectiveness; upholding the exemplary role of Party officials and members; inspecting and monitoring personal asset declaration; protecting those who report corruption cases and fight against corruption, losses and other unwanted behaviours; etc. … [Read more...] about Vietnam reaches for prosperity

"They're trying to trick us. They tell us to enter the country legally, but then they deport us," said one migrant, Tania, who has been with the caravan since it set out last week from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, around 650km away. … [Read more...] about Mexican troops repel border-storming migrant caravan