Vietnam has a special position and plays a key role in promoting peace and stability within ASEAN, has said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during a working luncheon of the UN Security Council.
The strategic partnership between Vietnam and Japan has been developing strongly in recent years with Japan currently Vietnam’s largest ODA provider and the second largest foreign investor, said Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue at the Vietnam-Japan trade and investment promotion conference in the central city of Da Nang on January 13.
The first 11 months of 2019 saw a large amount of capital injected into various textile, dyeing, and fiber projects across the nation, according to information released by the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas).
The Vietnam - Laos parliamentary collaboration, which has been unceasingly developed, helps boost the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two nations, Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has said.
The first-round meeting of the joint working group on Vietnam-Cambodia border gates was held in Hanoi on January 9. The Vietnamese delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister and Chairman of the National Border Committee Le Hoai Trung, while the Cambodian side was led by Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior Sok Phal.
Vietnam is developing an e-government and cyber security, hence the country wants to cooperate with Japan – a reliable partner – in these fields, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Vietnam has been noted by Japanese firms as the most promising place in Asia to invest in 2020, with India and Southeast Asian countries dominating other top spots, Kyodo News cited a survey as released on January 8.
Vietnam hopes to have 3 843 products qualified for standards of One Commune One Product OCOP programmes by this year said deputy minister of agriculture and rural development Tran Thanh Nam at a conference in Hanoi on January 9.
At a reception in Hanoi on January 8 for Adam Boehler, first CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), head of the Economic Commission of the Party Central Committee Nguyen Van Binh affirmed that Vietnam always supports and facilitates the investment by US firms in general and the DFC in particular.
With China tightening import standards, Vietnam is working to increase its fruit and vegetable exports in alternative markets.
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