Vietnam will create the best conditions for Thailand’s SCG Group to carry out investment projects in the country as scheduled, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said.

  Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh came to the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi on July 6 to thank China for assisting Vietnam in the search and rescue work in the incident involving CASA-212 aircraft.

 Environmental protection must be the top priority of businesses, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said at a reception on July 6 for General Director of Doosan Vina in Vietnam Jung Yeon In.

 A visiting delegation from the Communist Party of India (CPI) was received by Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of the Party Central Committee’s Mass Mobilisation Commission Truong Thi Mai in Hanoi on July 6.

 The 12th Party Central Committee on July 6 heard the Politburo’s proposal on candidates for top positions at State agencies to be submitted to the new National Assembly’s first session.

 The 12th Party Central Committee opened its third meeting in Hanoi on July 4 in which Party members will nominate officials for senior positions.

 Vietnam voted to pass a new United Nations Resolution on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity on June 30 at the 32nd meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has stressed the importance of the agenda discussed at the ongoing 3rd plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia has conducted measures to ensure citizen protection following Cambodian forces’ arrest of 84 Vietnamese people on July 1.

 The Vietnamese Government has approved an agreement on visa exemption for diplomatic and official passport holders signed with the Republic of Cyprus.

The National Assembly, the Government and offices still have a lot of works to do to put the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) into practice, and to create a new motivation for the nation during its integration process once the agreement is ratified.

 Vietnam will continue to attach importance to developing friendship and cooperation with its traditional friends, including Belarus, President Tran Dai Quang told Belarusian out-going Ambassador Valery Sadokho on July 5.

  Judicial officials from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea said at a conference in Hanoi that the two countries have achieved positive results in judicial cooperation since they began implementing specific activities in 2002.

 Phu Quoc Island of the Mekong Deta province of Kien Giang is hosting a map and document exhibition, giving locals an insight into Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes.

 Vietnam - US relations' development to comprehensive partnership

 The National Assembly (NA) may ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement by the end of this year, Vice Chairman of the parliament’s Committee for External Relations Ngo Duc Manh said.

 President Tran Dai Quang has requested heads of Vietnam’s diplomatic missions abroad to continue improving the efficiency of economic and cultural diplomacy, and popularising the image of the Vietnamese land and people in their host countries.

 Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Council, Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam, welcomed Doraisamy Raja, Politburo member of the Communist Party of India, in the city on July 4.

China’s plan to carry out military exercises in an area that covers Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) in the East Sea has once again seriously violated Vietnam’s sovereignty over the archipelago, said Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh.

 Vietnam’s general police department opened a training course in Ho Chi Minh City on July 4 on drug investigative techniques and strategies to help Cambodia improve its anti-drug capability.