VOV.VN - Vietnam attracted more than US$18 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) during the past seven months of the year, representing an increase of 10.9% against the same period from last year, according to details given by the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA).

VOV.VN - Many senior officials of foreign countries have flown to Hanoi to pay their respects to Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong during the funeral service that is getting underway in Hanoi on July 25-26. (to be continued....)

VOV.VN - President To Lam on July 25 received Prime Minister Han Duck-soo of the Republic of Korea, President of the Cambodian People’s Party and Senate President Hun Sen, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval of India, and Minister of War Veterans and Rights Holders Laid Rebiga of Algeria who came to pay their respects to Vietnamese General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

VOV.VN - ASEAN Foreign Ministers and ASEAN Secretary General Kao Kim-hourn, while attending a meeting in Vientiane, Laos, on July 24 observed a minute of silence in commemoration of Vietnamese Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong who passed away on July 19.

Senior leaders of ASEAN countries on July 24 issued a message of condolences on the passing of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong.

VOV.VN - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong played a huge role in strengthening the close-knit relationship with Thailand, as well as the people of both nations, according to Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs Maris Sangiampongsa.

VOV.VN - The 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the nation and Colombia was recently celebrated by the Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela and Colombia alongside the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bogota.

A delegation from the south central province of Binh Dinh led by Permanent Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Le Kim Toan paid a working trip to Germany and France to explore investment opportunities from July 17-22, reported the provincial Department of Planning and Investment.

Experts and scholars in many countries around the world have made assessments affirming Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's role and contributions to the cause of national construction and development as well as efforts to build and rectify the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Heads of state and government, leaders of parliaments and political parties of countries and representatives of international organisations have sent their sympathies to Vietnam over the passing of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong.