VOV.VN - The government of Japan has decided to present Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun to Hoang Binh Quan, former head of the Party Central Committee’s External Relations Commission.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Algeria and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Algeria’s Annaba province have recently held a seminar to introduce the potential for trade and investment partnerships between the two countries.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone discussed measures to boost future cooperation between the two countries during their working session in Hanoi on April 22.

VOV.VN - Seven workers were killed and three other were injured in a work-related accident at a cement plant in Yen Bai province, northern Vietnam, on April 22.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang arrived in Caracas on April 17 (local time), beginning his three-day official visit to Venezuela at the invitation of the government of Venezuela.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen Hoang Xuan Chien lauded the practical, effective and outstanding development of bilateral defence ties in personnel training and defence industry during a reception in Hanoi on April 17 for Polish Ambassador to Vietnam Aleksander Surdej.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on April 16 received Diego Martinez Belio, State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs of Spain, who is in Vietnam to co-chair the fifth political consultation between the two countries.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on April 16 said that Vietnam always values and wishes to strengthen multifaceted cooperation with Hungary, a traditional partner and the only comprehensive partner of Vietnam in the Central Eastern European region when receiving First Officer of the Hungarian National Assembly Márta Mátrai.

VOV.VN - Leaders of the National Assembly of Vietnam and the National Assembly of Hungary discussed the role of the legislature in supreme supervision of bilateral cooperation agreements signed between the two countries, during a working session in Hanoi on April 16.

VOV.VN - The government seeks to facilitate Vietnamese business operations in Cuba, bringing benefits to businesses and people of both countries and contributing to Cuba’s socio-economic development, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz told Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang in Havana on April 15 (local time).