VOV.VN - State President To Lam was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee at an extraordinary plenum of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi on August 3.

President To Lam hosted separate receptions in Hanoi on August 2 for the Ambassadors of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Canada.

President To Lam on August 1 hosted a banquet in honour of Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta, who is on a state visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Timor Leste expects to get Vietnamese assistance in areas where Vietnam has strengths, such as agriculture, food security, infrastructure development, education - training, human resource development, health care, and poverty reduction.

VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches great importance to its comprehensive strategic partnership with Japan, and wants to work closely with its partner to further strengthen bilateral relations, said Le Hoai Trung, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations.

VOV.VN - With its strategic position in terms of politics, economics, social affairs, defence and security in Vietnam, the Central Highlands needs special mechanisms for its future stability and development, leaders of Central Highlands provinces said at a conference on in Buon Ma Thuot city August 2.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and China have maintained stability along their land border after 25 years of signing the boundary treaty, creating conditions for border localities to increase exchanges and cooperation, said Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son.

Delegations of Vietnam’s Thu Lum, Ma Lu Thang Border Gate, Si Lo Lau and Y Ty border posts and China’s Jin Shuihe border exit and entry checkpoint held talks on August 1 in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau to exchange professional knowledge in the second quarter of 2024.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Brazil and Suriname Bui Van Nghi has presented his credentials to Surinamese President Chandrikapersad Santokhi.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnamese delegation arrived in Hanoi in the early morning of August 2, concluding a successful State visit to India from July 31-August 1 at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.