Viet Nam’s total export and import turnover over the past eight months of the year exceeded US$216.76 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12.9%, according to the Viet Nam Customs.
Exports from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam have rocketed this year, despite declines in other major export markets like China and Japan, prompting local firms to seek business partners in the Southeast Asian country.
The opening ceremony of the 40th International Food and Beverage Exhibition (Foodex Japan 2015) took place at the Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan on March 3rd.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh hosted a reception for newly-accredited US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius, during which both sides agreed to work closely to organise activities celebrating the 20th anniversary of diplomatic ties this year.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh hosted a reception for newly-accredited US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius, during which both sides agreed to work closely to organise activities celebrating the 20th anniversary of diplomatic ties this year.
The Ho Chi Minh city – Dau Giay section under the North - South expressway construction project officially opened to traffic on February 8th.
Speaking at a conference in Hanoi on April 21 to review the implementation of the programme’s second phase, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung said that Programme 135 represents the Party and State’s determination to target vulnerable groups in society, including nearly 10 million people who live in poor or remote communes.
During his stay, the Vietnamese official paid a courtesy visit to President Reuven Rivlin, who described the visit as a contribution to fostering the friendship and co-operation between the two countries.
Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh on Monday thanked the Government and people of Kuwait for their good sentiments they have reserved for Viet Nam while he met with the Kuwait-Viet Nam Friendship Parliamentarians Group, led by Chairman Khalil Abdulla Ali. 
Putin expressed this in a message to President Truong Tan Sang congratulating Vietnam on the occasion of the 69 th National Day on September 2.
A score of measures to boost bilateral cooperation in the foresaid areas were discussed at talks between PM Dung and the EC President in Hanoi on August 25.
A military co-operation plan for 2013 was agreed and signed in Ha Noi yesterday by Viet Nam's Minister of Defence General Phung Quang Thanh and his Lao counterpart Douangchay Phichit, who is also the country's Deputy Prime Minister. 
Minh described Mrkic’s visit from February 27 to March 2 as an important milestone in the two countries’ growing traditional relations.
At a reception for visiting French Minister of Labour Michel Sapin in Hanoi on October 26, the PM thanked France for its ODA to Vietnam in vocational training.
Vietnam’s rice output is expected to surpass 43 million tonnes in 2012, an increase of 1 million tonnes or 2.6 percent over the previous year.
The Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture (Vietsovpetro) on Aug. 8 tapped the 200 millionth tonne of oil from two oil fields of Rong (Dragon) and Bach Ho (White Tiger) off the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
 Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in July declined for the second consecutive month, falling by 0.29 percent, recording the lowest level in the month since 2004, General Statics Office (GSO) reported on July 24.
Vietnam has sufficient legal and historical evidence to affirm its sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelagos.
The Vietnam Petroleum Association (VPA) has said that the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation’s (CNOOC) announcement to invite international bids for nine oil and gas lots within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf seriously violates Vietnam’s sovereignty.
  The consumer price index (CPI) in June dropped by 0.17 percent against the previous month and increased by 6.32 percent over last year’s same month, according to the Hanoi Statistics Department.
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