Vietnamese Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang held talks with Liu Jun, President, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in Hanoi on March 17 to discuss prospects for expanding bilateral economic cooperation, particularly in the financial and banking sectors.

VOV.VN - Senior Lieutenant General Dong Jun, China’s Minister of National Defence alongside a high-level delegation arrived in Vietnam on March 18 to attend activities under the 10th Vietnam-China Border Defence Friendship Exchange in northern Quang Ninh province.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has granted circulation approval for several new vaccines in the 58th approval round, including Envacgen, a vaccine against hand, foot and mouth disease caused by Enterovirus A71 (EV71), as sporadic cases are still recorded.

VOV.VN - Google Maps has begun updating administrative boundaries in some provinces and cities in Vietnam, more than eight months after the merger of provinces and cities.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and Pacific Airlines have been named the official carriers of the Hue Festival 2026 under a sponsorship agreement signed with the festival organising committee on March 17.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung on March 17 received Helene Budliger Artieda, Director of Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, who is on a working visit to Vietnam from March 15 to 17.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man has called for stronger coordination between the National Assembly's Standing Committee and the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) in law-making, supervision, and social feedback activities in 2026.

Vietnam attaches importance to its Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with the US, with cooperation in science, technology, innovation and digital economy serving as one of the key groundbreaking pillars, Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang said on March 17.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 17 received a visiting delegation from the Eisenhower Fellowships, during which he called for closer and more effective cooperation between Vietnam and the US in education and training through new and breakthrough approaches.

The 35th Vietnam International Trade Fair (Vietnam Expo 2026), one of the country’s most prestigious and long-established events of its kind, will be held from April 8 – 11 at the Vietnam Exposition Centre in Hanoi's Dong Anh commune.