Representatives from 30 Vietnamese and Thai businesses operating in the information and communications technology (ICT) explored cooperation opportunities at a recent meeting at Thailand Software Park in the Thai capital city of Bangkok. 

The Party Politburo has made public its expectations for the country’s socio-economic performance in 2011, prioritizing controlling inflation, stabilising the macroeconomy, and ensuring social welfare.

Vietnam will continue to take an active and responsible role in the Francophone Community’s activities, contributing to its development, solidarity, and cooperation among member countries, said a Vietnamese diplomat.

After the quake and tsunami attacking Japan on March 11, Vietnamese people have joined hands with people from all over the world to help Japan overcome difficulties.

Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat, Truong Tan Sang, made a working visit to the central province of Quang Tri on March 18.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked cabinet members and local authorities to take concrete steps on thrift and cuts in public investment as measures to curb inflation. 

Vietnam has always attached great importance to promoting solidarity, traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation with Cambodia for mutual interests, for peace, stability and development in the region and the world as a whole.

First session of the Vietnam-China Committee for Land Border Demarcation and Border Marker Planting was held in Beijing from March 14-18.

The Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Huynh Dam, sent a telegram on March 18 to the Japanese government and people to express condolences over their quake sufferings.

The Executive Director of the National League of POW/MIA Families (the US), Ann Mills Griffiths, met Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Defence Nguyen Chi Vinh at the ministry’s headquarters on March 18.

The ASEAN Chair experience of Vietnam will facilitate the nation’s cooperation in ASEAN as well as in regional and international integration, affirmed a diplomatic official.

The ninth and last session of the 12th National Assembly will open on March 21 at the Defence Ministry’s Meeting Hall in Hanoi.

The Vietnam National Assembly will make all-out efforts to preserve and develop the traditional relations between Vietnam and Cambodia, a senior legislator said.

Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) has received over VND1 billion from organisations and individuals to support Japanese victims of the March 11 powerful earthquake and tsunami.

Vietnam believes that the Japanese Government and people will overcome the consequences of natural disasters to stabilise their lives soon.

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee has sent a congratulatory message to the 9th National Congress of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP), affirming support and belief in the Lao revolutionary cause.

The government’s central information portal held an online seminar on March 16 to discuss the new features of the National Assembly and People’s Council elections, which are going to be held simultaneously for the first time.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has received his Cambodian counterpart Men Sam On, President of the Cambodia- Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians Group. 

The Vietnamese embassy in Japan should work closely with relevant Vietnamese units and Japanese agencies to urgently evacuate its citizens from dangerous areas to safer places. 

Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV) held a ceremony at its headquarters on March 16 to present the Cambodian Government’s Orders to nine cadres of VOV in recognition of their contributions to Cambodia’s construction.

Vietnam has adopted policies and moves to ensure ethnic minorities exercise rights in every sphere of life, an Independent Expert on Minority issues said at the 16th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) on March 15.

A delegation from the Republic of Korea (RoK) National Assembly’s Defence Committee led by its chairman Won Yoo-chul, has paid a working visit to Vietnam to foster cooperative relations between Vietnam and the RoK.

A Party Politburo member has hailed people-to-people diplomacy’s contributions to the country’s achievements in political, economic, cultural, social, scientific and technological areas.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered relevant ministries, sectors and localities to continue taking practical measures to implement the Government’s resolution on controlling inflation.

A conference was held in Hanoi on March 15 by Hanoi’s National Assembly (NA) delegation to review its activities in the 2007-2011 term.

On March 15, State President Nguyen Minh Triet and Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, Huynh Dam met with HCM City’s NA delegation and representatives from the HCM City Fatherland Front Standing Committee, its member organisations and 24 districts across the city.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) will close its field office in the southern city of Ho Chi Minh on March 31.

The Vietnamese government is willing to send medical staff to Japan to help the country overcome the consequences of the recent earthquake and tsunami, besides an aid package worth US$200,000.

The National Buddhism Propagation Seminar 2011 themed “Buddhism and the nation”, the largest ever held, closed in the southern province of Binh Duong on March 13.

Party General Secretary and Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Phu Trong on March 11 sent a message of sympathy to Japanese Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Party, Naoto Kan, over human and property losses caused by powerful earthquake and tsunami.