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Participants at the meeting (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Ambassador Tran Duc Binh, head of Vietnam's permanent mission to ASEAN, has attended the 9th Meeting of the Joint Council of the ASEAN – China Centre (ACC) in Xian, China. The annual meeting reviewed ACC’s activities in 2019 and approved a plan for the centre’s operations in 2020. Accordingly, the centre successfully implemented 23 projects to promote trade, investment, tourism, and education cooperation, and culture and people-to-people exchange between ASEAN member nations and China. The 2019 ASEAN-China Intelligent Industry Conference, and a programme to promote Chinese  firms’ investment in Vietnam, were held in HCM City in July 2019. Participants said the ACC’s projects should focus on supporting the realisation of decisions by the ASEAN-China Summit, including the ASEAN - China Strategic Partnership Vision 2030, … [Read more...] about Vietnam attends ASEAN – China Centre Joint Council’s meeting

The meeting was the first in four decades that came amid tense relations between the United States and China. Taiwan's national security chief David Lee met White House national security adviser John Bolton earlier this month, the island's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The official Central News Agency said the meeting was the first since the island and the United States ended formal diplomatic ties in 1979. China considers Taiwan a renegade province, to be reclaimed by force if necessary, and the meeting is likely to anger Beijing further with Sino-U.S. relations already tense. The diplomatic temperature has risen in recent weeks amid an escalating trade war, U.S. sanctions and China's increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea, where the United States also conducts freedom-of-navigation patrols. The rare meeting will be viewed by Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration. Tensions have also risen between Taipei and … [Read more...] about Taiwan and US security officials hold rare meeting amid China tension

Officers and soldiers of Vietnam's second level-2 field hospital (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Preventing conflicts, enhancing preventive diplomacy, settling conflicts via peaceful measures, intensifying multilateralism, consolidating sustainable development, coping with climate change and promoting human rights will be Vietnam’s priorities during its term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2020-2021. With the aim of becoming a “partner for sustainable peace,” Vietnam has made direct contributions to international peacekeeping missions. Five years after Vietnam joined the UN peacekeeping operations in 2014, the country has sent officers to two UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and the Central African Republic. The country’s first level-2 field hospital has been awarded with the UN’s “For the cause of peacekeeping” order. As a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2008-2009, Vietnam … [Read more...] about Vietnam records remarkable achievements in human rights

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan hosted a reception in Hanoi on May 10 for Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, who is also Chairman of the Rajya Sabha - the upper house of the Parliament of India. Vice President of India to visit Vietnam, attend UN Day of Vesak Vietnam, India work toward two-way trade of $15 billion National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (R) and Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, who is also Chairman of the Rajya Sabha - the upper house of the Parliament of India Ngan welcomed Naidu’s official visit to Vietnam and attendance at the United Nations Day of Vesak 2019, believing that the trip would help reinforce and strengthen political trust and solidarity between the States and people of Vietnam and India. The top legislator expressed her satisfaction at the growing relations between Vietnam and India over the past time, especially after the two countries’ leaders agreed to elevate bilateral ties to the level of … [Read more...] about NA Chairwoman welcomes Indian Vice President

The Ministry of Transport has asked the Civil Aviation Authority of Viet Nam, in co-operation with local authorities, to get serious about an assault on security staff at Tho Xuan Airport in central Thanh Hoa Province. No place for violence against flight attendants Deputy PM steps in after airport security worker assaulted A view of Tho Xuan Airport in Thanh Hoa Province where an assault on security staff occurred. — Photo nld.com.vn It has ordered heavy penalties for the tourist who attacked the security guards. Le Van Hung attacked two airport staff after failing to comply with their instructions at a security gate on June 1. Hung, 38, reportedly arrived at Tho Xuan Airport to check in for a flight to HCM City. He failed to follow instructions and became frustrated. He grabbed one staff member and pushed him to the floor, and then attacked another officer, leaving him with a head wound. Hung was detained for further investigation. He has been banned from domestic and … [Read more...] about Transport Ministry gets serious about airport staff assault