Politburo member and Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue appreciated the initiatives and operations of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Vietnam in general and in Hanoi in particular.

Appreciating Uniqlo Group’s selection of Ho Chi Minh City as the first place to open a chain of stores in Vietnam, Nguyen Thanh Phong, Chairman of the City People’s Committee, affirmed that the city authority was willing to help Uniqlo continue to expand business in the city in the future.

External relations continue to be a bright spot in the overall achievements of the country, contributing to creating a favorable environment for national construction and defense, and raising Vietnam’s national position.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President Nguyen Phu Trong has sent a message of congratulations to newly-elected General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Jong Un.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc has held a phone talk with Congressman Ted Yoho, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation (116th tenure), on the occasion of his office at the House of Representatives ending.

A gathering was held on January 7 by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organizations and the Cambodian Consulate General in the city to mark 42 years since the victory in the Southwestern border defence war and the joint victory on January 7, 1979 of Vietnam and Cambodia over the genocidal Pol Pot regime.

Many political parties in Latin America have sent congratulatory letters to the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and Vietnamese people ahead of the CPV’s 13th National Congress slated for January 25 to February 2.

The relationship between Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore has thriven over the past years in diverse areas, including authority relations, economics, culture, and education – training.

Diverse precious documents and images on the first Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos have been publicized.