VOV.VN - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Vietnam on Oct. 29-30 during his Asia tour, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said.

The US diplomatic mission in Vietnam on October 19 sent deep condolences to the Vietnamese Government and people over the great losses at Economic-Defence Army 337 of Military Region 4 in the central province of Quang Tri.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam-Germany Friendship Association held a ceremony in Hanoi on October 16 to celebrate 35 years of its founding anniversary and 45 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

About 50 Vietnamese diplomats were provided with training on delivering coordinated quality services to women migrant workers subject to violence in Hanoi on October 15.

VOV.VN- The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) and the Norwegian Embassy in Hanoi on October 14 co-organised a Public Speech Session by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, H.E. Ms Ine Eriksen Soreide on “Multilateralism in a Global Context of Increased Geopolitical Tension and a Multilateral System under Pressure”.

The Association of Vietnamese Professionals and Students in the US is organising the “Vong Tay Nuoc My 8” (the US’s arm 8) event from October 9 to 11 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Vietnam-US diplomatic relations.

VOV.VN - The normalisation of Vietnam-US diplomatic relations was an important decision of the two countries’ top leaders, which closed a difficult period and heralded a promising era, said a senior Government official.

Foreigners who entered Vietnam from March 1, 2020 can have their temporary stay permits automatically extended for another month until October 31, the Immigration Department announced on September 30.

Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping consented to step up result-oriented cooperation between the two countries during their phone talk on September 29.

The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is planning to open four new diplomatic representative offices abroad in the fiscal year 2021, including a consulate general in Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang, according to the daily newspaper Yomiuri.