Vietnamese Consul General in China’s Hong Kong and Macau Le Duc Hanh paid a courtesy visit to Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region Ho Iat Seng on August 13 as part of her first working trip to the region.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 14 stressed law building as a key task for ministries and agencies this month, urging great efforts to complete the draft laws that are slated to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at its eighth meeting, scheduled for October.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Pham Hung Tam on August 14 paid a courtesy visit to Senator Simon Birmingham, the opposition's Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.

VOV.VN - General Tan Sri Datuk Seri Mohammad bin Ab Rahman, chief of Malaysia’s Defence Force, is currently paying an official visit to Vietnam from August 13 to August 16 at the invitation of Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong, chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA).

VOV.VN - The 78th anniversary of India’s Independence Day was celebrated on August 14 by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) and the Vietnam-India Friendship Association in the city.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed to issue an official dispatch directing ministries, sectors, and localities to effectively implement the Land Law, Housing Law, and Real Estate Business Law, all of which came into force simultaneously on August 1.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and State President To Lam chaired the 26th meeting of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena on August 14 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The 27th ASEAN Directors-General of Immigration Departments and Heads of Consular Affairs Divisions of Ministries of Foreign Affairs Meeting (DGICM 27) opened on August 14 in Nha Trang city in the southcentral coastal province of Khanh Hoa.

VOV.VN - A delegation of Hanoi, led by Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, deputy secretary of the municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the municipal People's Council, paid a four-day working trip to Argentina from August 11, in an effort to step up the capital’s ties with Argentinean localities.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 13 continued to warn Vietnamese citizens not to travel to Lebanon, Iran, and Israel at this time as tensions are escalating in the Middle East.