Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

The US and Vietnam pledged on Thursday to deepen their relationship despite their differences over human rights.

Vietnam has become an attractive destination for Swiss investors. Switzerland attaches great importance to expanding economic relation with Vietnam, which is one of the seven prioritised countries receiving Switzerland’s development assistance.

Prime Minister of Finland, Mr. Matti VANHANEN will be conducting an official visit to Vietnam 15.-17. November 2009. The Prime Minister will visit both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, with a representative Finnish business delegation accompanying him.

The Wallonie-Bruxelles International organization has pledged to provide Vietnam with an additional four million euros for cooperative projects between the agency and the Southeast Asian country.

Sri Lanka and Vietnam have signed five bilateral agreements. Vietnam has expressed full support for oil exploration in Sri Lanka.

Vietnam and Russia should re-examine their prioritised projects regularly in the 2009-2012 period, especially those in energy, science and technology as part of an effort to deepen their strategic partnership and bring practical benefits to their people.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday offered Vietnam aid for typhoon victims during wide-ranging talks here with Vietnamese Foreign minister Pham Gia Khiem.

Liberal senator has promised to wear a south Vietnamese freedom tie in parliament in protest at a communist party official's visit to Australia.

The U.S. and Vietnam want to limit Chinese influence in Southeast Asia by maintaining a balance of power with other countries in the region, a former American ambassador in Hanoi said.

Vietnam has reformed its corruption laws, but has made few concrete moves to crack down on offenders via the legal system or the media, foreign diplomats told Vietnamese officials on Friday.

Vietnam's most powerful official, Communist Party general Secretary Nong Duc Manh, was to arrive Sunday for an official visit to Japan, the country's largest bilateral aid donor, the government said.

Vietnam wants to further strengthen its traditional friendship and cooperation with Sudan, especially in agriculture, oil and gas and trade.

China and Vietnam officially completed demarcation of their long-disputed land border Monday, state media said, the latest step forward in relations between the neighbours who fought a war in 1979.

BEIJING — Thirty years after they went to war with each other, Beijing and Hanoi have opted for cooperation, even if Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia view China's growing presence with suspicion.

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito was in Vietnam on Tuesday for a week-long visit, the first to a communist country by an heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne.