VOV.VN - President Vo Van Thuong announced a gift worth US$1 million from the Party, State, and people of Vietnam to their Laotian counterparts during talks held with General Secretary of the Laos People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith on April 10 in Vientiane.

Shimizu Akira, Chief Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Vietnam Office, was honoured with the insignia “For the development of Vietnam's transport sector” by the Ministry of Transport (MoT) on March 23.

A key measure to effective public investment disbursement is to promote investment with focuses, with priority given to regional linkage projects to create new socio-economic development spaces for localities, said Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Tran Van Son at a regular Cabinet press conference on March 3.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang received Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio in Hanoi on February 15.

A working delegation led by World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships Mari Pangestu paid a fact-finding trip to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 7 to check on the Can Tho City Development and Resilience Project.

VOV.VN - Vietnam supports regular meetings to be held between relevant Vietnamese agencies and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to iron out snags and ramp up ODA projects in the country.

Vietnamese Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan on July 1 had a meeting with President of the Philippines Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr as part of her visit to the country to attend the latter's swearing-in ceremony.

VOV.VN - Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), has underscored the necessity of bolstering bilateral co-operation between the nation and Germany, especially to work together to deal with new diseases that may break out.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has proposed that Japan provide the nation with new-generation official development assistance (ODA) to ensure new and flexible ways and measures go alongside maximum incentives which can be used across multiple fields.

The central city of Da Nang will press ahead with the research and forecasting of the world’s political situation and new trends in global economic transformation to serve its development policy making over the next five years.