Only 7.5% of official development assistance (ODA) and foreign loans have been disbursed since the beginning of the year according to the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

VOV.VN - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison showed his wish to upgrade the Vietnam-Australia strategic partnership to a comprehensive strategic partnership during an online talk with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh on May 25.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue on May 14 received Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yamada Takio, who expressed his strong wish for Hue’s further support for boosting the two countries' relations in his new post.

VOV.VN - In its external policy, Vietnam always considers Japan to be a strategic, long-term and leading important partner, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc told Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide during their phone talks on May 11.

VOV.VN - A delegation led by Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam Park Noh-wan held a working session with leaders of the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang during a visit to the locality on May 11.

The Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City on May 10 announced the Japanese Government’s decision to bestow the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon upon Vietnamese Professor Vo Tong Xuan.

VOV.VN - Viet Duc (Vietnam-Germany) University Hospital has been granted surgical centre accreditation by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Newly-appointed Foreign Minister (FM) Bui Thanh Son on April 14 held separate online conversations with Australian FM Marise Payne, Malaysian FM Hishammuddin Hussein and Philippine FM Teodoro Locsin Jr..

VOV.VN - The steering board of the “Support to Vietnam for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement” (VN-SIPA) project gathered together on April 14 in Hanoi in order to examine ways in which to ramp up its implementation.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) is likely to fulfil 11.4% of its yearly plan of public capital disbursement at the end of the first quarter of this year.