Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung appreciated the USAID increasing its support for Vietnam over the past years during a working session with the agency’s leaders in Washington DC, the US, on April 10.

The public was recently intrigued about the news that former Senator Bob Kerrey was appointed the Chair of FUV Board of Trustees. VietNamNet talked with Kerrey and Thomas J. Valelly, Chairman of the Trust for University Innovation in Vietnam.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception in Hanoi on April 25 for US Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack, during which he hoped the US would step up activities to support Vietnam in agricultural production and climate change response.

Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong and US Trade Representative Michael Froman expressed a desire to accelerate an early conclusion of the TPP negotiations at a July 6 meeting as part of Trong's ongoing trip to the US.