Prime Minister Nguy​en Xu​an Ph​uc met with his Malaysian counterpart, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Aril 28 after arriving in Manila for the 30th ASEAN summit.

 President of Lebanon Michel Aoun said he will pay special attention to further enhancing the Vietnam-Lebanon ties in a recent meeting with Vietnamese Ambassador to Egypt and Lebanon Do Hoang Long.

 Vietnam and Thailand will work together to educate their people on not illegally fishing off each nation’s waters and issue joint advance warnings against the act, the Prime Ministers of the two countries said.

 Vietnam has made practical and concrete contributions to realising the mission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the head of the UN agency said.

Tank number 390 crashed through the gates of Independence Palace, the last stronghold of the Sai Gon regime at noon on April 30, 1975, heralding the end of the war.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is an attractive fintech market with estimated value of $35 billion. However, it has lagged behind in the last 10 years.

 Microsoft officially launched Microsoft Teams - the chat-based workspace in Office 365, on Thursday in Viet Nam.

 Viet Nam’s TSV Investment JSC and Singapore’s wind energy developer The Blue Circle kicked off construction of Dam Nai wind project in Ninh Thuan Province on Friday.

 A year after it caused mass fish deaths by discharging untreated waste directly into the sea, an inspection has found Formosa having addressed 52 of 53 environmental violations.

 Following six months of construction, the central city inaugurated its first road tunnel at the intersection of Le Duan and Tran Phu streets on the west bank of the Han River yesterday.

 Viet Nam’s U20 squad will play one more friendly match ahead of the FIFA World Cup in South Korea next month.

 Vietnamese athletes secured two more gold medals at the Singapore Open Track & Field Championships on April 28.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though only around 10 Vietnamese footwear brands exist in the home market and each holds a modest 2 percent of market share, the products have begun conquering the local consumer market.

The consumer price index (CPI) in April remained unchanged from the previous month, but up 4.3 percent against the same period last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on April 29. 

 Vietnam’s two proposals have been approved by members of ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) and added to the AIPA Message at the meeting of AIPA leaders in Manila, the Philippines, on April 28. 

 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam spoke highly of cooperative ties between the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) over the past two decades during a reception in Hanoi.

 Vietnam attaches importance to developing ties with France and Europe, Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son told Emmanuel Lenain, Director for Asia and Oceania at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development.

VietNamNet Bridge - The attractiveness of the processed food industry in Vietnam, a market with 90 million consumers, can be seen in the high number of merger & acquisition (M&A) deals made in the last three years.

 The 5th Plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee in early May will issue a resolution intended to spur the development of the private sector into an important engine of the socialist-oriented market economy.

Park Chulho, director general of Kotra Hanoi, discussed with VIR the highlights of South Korean investment and future trends.