Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Visiting Vietnamese president Truong Tan Sang Thursday made an assurance that the proposed Organisation of Rice Exporting Countries (OREC) will not become a rice cartel in the region even as he urged stronger trade relations with the Philippines that would surpass the $3 billion targetted bilateral trade level by 2016.

The Philippines said Wednesday it had begun deporting 122 Vietnamese fishermen arrested nearly four months ago for illegally fishing in local waters, but huge fines against them were waived.

After appearing to make progress in cooling tensions over the South China Sea in recent weeks, Southeast Asia and China face the potential for more trouble ahead as oil and gas companies expand their exploration work in the contested waters.

MANILA - The Philippines and Vietnam have agreed to pursue further dialogue to avoid tension in the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea following a bilateral meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, between President Benigno S. Aquino III and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Sur invitation du président de la République, Nguyên Minh Triêt, le président des Philippins, Benigno S.Aquino, effectue le 26 octobre une visite d'État au Vietnam.

Le dernier appel d’offre des Philippines pour l’achat de riz a été remporté par la république socialiste.

Vietnam participated in the bidding session for purchasing 600,000 tonnes of rice opened in the Philippines on December 1 and won three bidding packages with total rice export of 300,000 tonnes of 25 percent broken rice at high price.

Vietnam expects to start signing rice-export contracts with the Philippines earlier than usual this year after storms damaged harvests in the world’s largest buyer, boosting prices for the staple.

Vietnam on Friday criticised a new Philippine law which China earlier slammed for laying claim to two strategic South China Sea territories claimed by several Asian countries.

Vietnam's top rice exporters have sought government approval to build a bonded warehouse for rice in the Philippines, a state-run newspaper said yesterday, in a move to raise exports and expand trade ties between the nations.

The Philippines, the world's largest rice importer, is on track to secure most of the grain it needs this year through a large and secretive government-to-government deal with Vietnam, bypassing the international market, traders said yesterday.