VOV.VN - Speaker of New Zealand’s House of Representatives Adrian Rurawhe affirmed his nation’s recognition of great importance to boosting ties with Vietnam during a meeting on September 14 with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son as part of the latter’s official visit to New Zealand.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Thailand Phan Chi Thanh urged Thai companies to continue investing in Vietnam, especially in high-tech and environment-friendly industries such as electric vehicles, at a working session with Thai Minister of Industry Suriya Juangroongruangkit on September 13.

Minister of National Defence Gen. Phan Van Giang paid courtesy calls to General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith and the country’s Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh in Vientiane on September 13.

A delegation of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) visited France from September 9 - 12 to meet local agencies and learn from their experience, management models, mechanisms and policies for promoting innovation and intellectual property (IP).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a conference in Hanoi on September 12 to continue seeking measures for keeping macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, boosting growth, and ensuring major balances of the economy in the current context.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has affirmed that Singapore is one of the effective and practical partners of Vietnam in the region, especially in economy, trade, investment and education-training.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) ensure energy sufficiency during a working session on September 11 to seek ways for accelerating some key projects and solving difficulties facing the firm.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on September 10 morning went to the British Ambassador’s private residence to write in the condolence book to mourn Queen Elizabeth II who passed away on September 8.

Former Deputy Minister of Health Cao Minh Quang and accomplices have been prosecuted for alleged wrongdoings in the purchase of materials for producing Tamiflu and the drug containing the Oseltamivir phosphate element to tackle the A/H5N1 flu virus in 2006.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son is scheduled to pay an official visit to Australia from September 11-13 to deepen the strategic partnership which is developing substantially and effectively between the two countries.