Ho Chi Minh City authorities have issued updated regulations on work permits for foreigners.

VOV.VN - Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) racked up a trade surplus exceeding nearly US$34 billion from the beginning of the year to September 15, according to the latest preliminary statistics released by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

VOV.VN - The President of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, will pay an official visit to Vietnam from September 24 to 29, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam.

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue received Muhammad Faruk Khan, Chairman of the Bangladesh Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, and gave an important speech at the Foreign Service Academy of Bangladesh in Dhaka on September 21.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son joined nearly 150 ministers and representatives from UN member countries at a preparatory ministerial meeting for the 2024 Summit of the Future in New York on September 21 (local time).

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on September 20 signed the United Nations agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, making Vietnam one of the first countries to sign the international-legally binding instrument under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos Saleumxay Kommasith, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of the Salomon Islands Jeremiah Manele, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Uganda Henry Oryem Okello.

VOV.VN - Spectrum of the Seas, one of the world's top 10 most luxurious cruise ships, arrived at Nha Trang port in the southcentral coastal province of Khanh Hoa on September 21, carrying with it approximately 4,000 foreign visitors onboard.

Friendship and mutual trust based on people-to-people exchanges nurtured for many years have formed an impetus for the Vietnam - Japan relations, said Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Kamikawa Yoko.

VOV.VN - Travel analytics firm ForwardKeys has named Vietnam among the top 20 most visited countries in the world by share of scheduled flight bookings.