Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe begins on January 16 a two-day visit to Vietnam, the last leg of his first trip abroad in 2017. Prime Minister Abe and his spouse are visiting Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc after touring three other Asia – Pacific countries – the Philippines, Australia and Indonesia. The visit reflects the importance that Japan attaches

          The Year 2017 is a special year- when ASEAN celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Vietnam always considers Japan its top and long-time partner, said Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong while receiving newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Umeda Kunio in Hanoi on December 14.   He congratulated the ambassador on taking office when the bilateral strategic partnership is thriving. The Party leader said he believes that the diplomat, with his experience, will make ac

  CPV Central Committee’s Organisation Commission Phạm Minh Chính (L) meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said  that he wants stronger cooperation between his country’s Liberal Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV). Meeting with the head of the CPV Central Committee’s Organisation Commission, Phạm Minh Chính, in Tokyo, Abe expr

Multilateral diplomacy deserves to have a higher place among priorities of Vietnam’s foreign policy in the coming time, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in a recent article. The official explained that the growing globalization and emergence of challenges on a global scale call for cooperation among countries, regardless of their size, and multilateral frameworks pro

Defense ties between Vietnam and Japan are growing comprehensively with a range of cooperative mechanisms, said Deputy Defense Minister, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh. In an interview with Voice of Vietnam (VOV) on the Vietnam-Japan defense policy dialogue in Tokyo on November 29, Mr Vinh said that the two sides successfully established mutual trust after three rounds of defense dialo

President Tran Dai Quang and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have agreed that the two countries’ relationship has grown robustly across the board and it should be further expanded. They made the remarks at their talks on the sidelines of the 24th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Lima, Peru’s capital city, on November 20.  The leaders expressed their pleasure that the formation of th

Vietnam has greatly contributed to the successes of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since it joined the 10-nation group two decades ago, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. In a recent article, the official reviewed the nearly half decade of development of ASEAN following the issuance of the Bangkok Declaration in 1967, which promoted cooperation an

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with Governor of Japan’s Mie prefecture Eikei Suzuki on November 14, saying he wants Mie to invest in the industries it has advantages in such as cargo machinery, electronics and chemical production in Vietnam.   Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) meets with Governor of Japan’s Mie prefecture Eikei Suzuki on November 14  At the meeting in Hanoi, PM Phuc noted t