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Hanoi (VNA) – Director of the Foreign Relations Department at the Ministry of Defence Lieut. Gen Vu Chien Thang and Director of Defence Policy Office of Singapore Col Amos Yeo co-chaired a virtual meeting on bilateral defence cooperation and the ASEAN Chairmanship Year in 2020 on August 13. They agreed to overcome obstacles caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to promote the implementation of defence cooperation between Vietnam and Singapore in the time to come, at the same time seek for suitable cooperation measures in the new context. They also discussed the signing of a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) on bilateral defence cooperation based on the previous one inked in September 2009.  Defence officers of Vietnam and Singapore will continue exchanging views on the draft MoU in upcoming meetings. At the event, the two sides affirmed the importance and efficiency of the defence policy dialogue mechanism at deputy ministerial level and the joint working group. They … [Read more...] about Vietnam, Singapore bolster defence cooperation

Since the organisation of the 8th meeting in December 2019, a number of issues have been handled including China’s admission of Vietnamese dairy products for export to China, China’s restoration of exporter status to three Vietnamese companies to export fishmeal to China, and China’s recognition of the Dong Dang-Pingxiang railway to be eligible to be used to export fruit to the Chinese market. Notably, Vietnam-China trade revenues were maintained and indeed expanded in the early months of 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Director of the Asian and African Markets Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Le Hoang Oanh, suggested the two sides extend clearance times and restore import and export activities of goods at Vietnam-China border markets and gates. She also suggested market opening for Vietnamese agricultural products and the establishment of a Vietnam Trade Promotion Office in Chengdu city in Sichuan province as well as boosting trade … [Read more...] about Vietnam, China discuss measures to promote bilateral trade

The signing of the free trade agreement between Vietnam and Chile has helped increase two-way trade rapidly, while the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which is scheduled to be signed in Chile on March 8, demonstrated the contributions of Vietnam, Chile and member countries in boosting global trade, he said. … [Read more...] about Chile wants to learn from Vietnam’s experience in hosting APEC Year

Chairwoman of the Vietnam National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who is also President of the AIPA-41 General Assembly and Head of the National Steering Committee for the AIPA 41, was in attendance at the ceremony to debut the initiatives, together with a number of senior Vietnamese officials. … [Read more...] about AIPA-41 website makes debut in Vietnam

The patient, who was the country’s COVID-19 patient No. 585, had a history of type-2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity, according to a statement released on Friday morning by Nguyen Trong Khoa, the Ministry of Health official in charge of COVID-19 control in Da Nang. … [Read more...] about Vietnam records 21st coronavirus-related death