Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday stressed the importance of building an independent, self-reliant economy associated with extensive, effective, and practical international integration in Vietnam.  Speaking at Harvard Kennedy School, Massachusetts, during his US visit, Mr. Chinh affirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of reform, ‘open doors’, active, extensive, effective and practical international integration.

   Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday hailed the role of the Vietnamese community in the US in connecting the two countries and implementing agreements reached between Vietnam and the US. Meeting with  staff members of the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington D.C and representatives from the Vietnamese community in the East

  – Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Sunday began a 5-day official visit to Vietnam, which is expected to contribute to consolidating political trust and deepening the multi-faceted cooperation between the two countries. She is scheduled to hold talks with President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, pay a courtesy visit to Party General Secretary Nguyen

  – Millions of Buddhists in Vietnam are celebrating Vesak Day 2022 on Sunday. The festival, which falls on the full moon of the 4th lunar month, commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Lord Buddha. Addressing a ceremony in HCM city, acting supreme patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha

 National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue arrived in Vientiane on Sunday for a three-day official visit to Laos. The visit reaffirms Vietnam’s consistent policy of giving top priority to and attaching great importance to developing the great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Laos. Both sides will discuss orientations

 At least 10 people were shot dead on Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Four of the victims were store employees and the remainders were customers. City and federal officials are calling the shooting a racially motivated hate crime. Among the 13 victims shot, 11 were African American

NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs on Saturday convened an informal meeting in Berlin to discuss Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and the bloc’s new Strategic Concept. Finland and Sweden participate as special guests at the meeting. According to the German Foreign Ministry, NATO Foreign Ministers discussed how further support