VOV.VN - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved US$4.6 million in technical assistance to help the Vietnamese Government strengthen public–private partnerships (PPPs), private sector development, and state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform.

The first phase of a VND10 trillion (US$433.3 million) project to control flooding caused by tides in the Ho Chi Minh City has so far seen 90% of its workload completed, informed the investor Trung Nam Group on July 2.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on July 1 held a phone call with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to discuss the Vietnam-US relations and international issues of mutual concern.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son voiced Vietnam’s high appreciation of the Republic of Korea’s New Southern Policy that considers Vietnam and ASEAN as key partners, during his talks with RoK Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong in Hanoi on June 23.

VOV.VN - Vietnam considers the Republic of Korea (RoK) as an important, long-term partner and one of the top priority partners in its foreign policy, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue told Park Byung-seug, Speaker of the RoK National Assembly during their online talks on June 23.

Head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Tran Tuan Anh hailed the growing strategic partnership between Vietnam and the UK in various areas during a reception in Hanoi on June 23 for Minister of State for Trade Policy in the Department for International Trade of the UK Greg Hands.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has proposed the UK Government further facilitate Vietnam's access to COVID-19 vaccine supplies and consider transferring its vaccine production technology to the Southeast Asian nation.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has suggested that the UK continue to support Vietnam in accessing supplies and consider transferring technology for COVID-19 vaccine production in the spirit of both side’s strategic partnership.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has praised both nations for working hand in hand to soon establish and hold meetings between their working groups on COVID-19 response towards a mutual recognition of each other’s vaccination certificates.

VOV.VN - Over the last 25 years, Vietnam has always served as a proactive, dynamic, and responsible member of the Asia - Europe Meeting (ASEM) following its participation in the organization since 1996.