VOV.VN - The country welcomes and encourages investment in hi-tech and semiconductor industries by offering appropriate mechanisms, incentives and modern infrastructure.

The International Francophone Day (March 20) offers an opportunity for the Francophone community to honour its common values and the desire shared by French-speaking people to live and cooperate in cultural diversity.

The fourth Vietnam – Laos ministerial-level defence policy dialogue was held in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 20 under the chair of Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and his Lao counterpart Vongkham Phommakone.

VOV.VN - Vietnam views the US to be its most important partner, especially in terms of economics and trade, National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said at a meeting with a business delegation of the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) held on March 20 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha hailed the results of cooperation and business between Airbus Group and Vietnamese partners in the aviation field, especially in terms of technology, management experience, techniques, and products during a meeting in Hanoi on March 20 with Olivier Michalon, Executive Vice President Global Business at Airbus Helicopters- a subsidiary of Airbus.

VOV.VN - The bilateral relationship between Vietnam and Australia is stronger than ever, particularly in line with commitments to closer co-operation on regional and global issues.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on March 19 held talks with Argentina’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship Diana Elena Mondino who is paying an official visit to Vietnam on March 19-20.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang highly valued the valuable support for Vietnam provided by Nippon Foundation, Sasakawa Peace Foundation and their Chairman Yohei Sasakawa since 1980, during a reception in Hanoi on March 19 for the Japanese guest.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 19 received the new ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Laos who have just commenced their tenures in Vietnam, affirming the Vietnamese Government’s commitment to supporting them in fulfilling duties.

VOV.VN - President of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Chang Won-sam has told Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang that official development assistance (ODA) from the Republic of Korea (RoK) for Vietnam will increase to more than US$52 million, nearly doubling the figure of 2023.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai welcomed the United States' continued long-term investment in Vietnam's Fulbright University at a meeting held with Professor Thomas J. Vallely, director of the Vietnam Program at the US Harvard University and Fulbright University Vietnam experts, on March 19 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Vietnam's co-operative defence ties with Mongolia will grow and flourish in the time ahead based on the sound bilateral relations, thereby meeting the aspiration and interests of the two people.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang and his Lao counterpart Kongthong Phongvichit co-chaired the 14th Vietnam - Laos Security Cooperation Conference on March 19 in the Lao capital of Vientiane.

VOV.VN - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), applauded active Vietnamese contributions to the organisation on March 18, especially the outcomes of the WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) which was held from February 26 to March 2 in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security on March 18 handed over 50 vehicles to the Lao Ministry of Public Security to help it ensure safety for activities held during Laos's Chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year.

Le Hoai Trung, Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and Chairman of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, held talks with Liu Jianchao, Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chairman of the CPC Central Committee’s International Liaison Department, in Jilin province on March 18.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov, who is paying an official visit to Vietnam, in Hanoi on March 18.

Foreign affairs and diplomacy have played a pioneering role in mobilising external resources to serve the country's socio-economic development, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son told a question and answer session at the National Assembly Standing Committee’s 31st sitting on March 18.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held talks in Hanoi on March 18 with his visiting Uzbek counterpart Bakhtiyor Saidov who is on an official visit to Vietnam from March 17-19.

VOV.VN - Alongside many countries around the world, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong has extended congratulations to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is one of the most important partners of Brazil in Southeast Asia, Eduardo Paes Saboia, Secretary for Asia and the Pacific at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, has said at the Vietnam-Brazil meeting recently held by the Vietnamese Embassy in Brasilia.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa and Zimbabwe Hoang Sy Cuong has presented his credential letter to Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang held a recent working session with State Secretary of the Croatian Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy Ivan Vidis to discuss the potential of labour cooperation between the two countries as part of her working visit to the European nation.

The establishment of the Vietnam-Australia comprehensive strategic partnership during the recent official visit to the Oceania nation by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh demonstrates joint efforts to deepen and promote mutual strategic trust, and contribute to building a new vision for the region, according to a scholar.

VOV.VN - Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member and deputy secretary of the Central Military Commission, hosted a reception on March 15 in Hanoi for Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand in Vietnam Nikorndej Balankura who came to bid farewell at the end of his working term in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan has suggested the US pay attention to sharing experience and cooperation in agricultural science and technology during a meeting with Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack on the occasion of her attendance at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York on March 14.

Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Achim Steiner has congratulated Vietnam on many important achievements in human development it has obtained over the recent past.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 4 for Takebe Tsutomu, Special Advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance, who is visiting Vietnam in his capacity as Honorary Chairman of the organising board of the ninth Japan-Vietnam Festival in Ho Chi Minh City.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang and State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia Frano Matusic on March 12 co-chaired a political consultation between the two foreign ministries, aiming to review bilateral cooperation and seek ways to promote relations in the coming time.

VOV.VN - Vietnam on March 14 requested that China comply with international law, including the 2000 Gulf of Tonkin maritime delimitation agreement between the two countries, after China recently announced a new baseline in the waters.