NDO/VNA - Nguyen Van Binh, Politburo member and head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 19 for Chang-Hee Lee, Country Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Vietnam. 

NDO/VNA - President of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front Tran Thanh Man has affirmed that Vietnam is ready to share reform experience with Cuba. 

NDO/VNA - The Vietnam-Cambodia border friendship exchange programme at the level of High Command will take place in the southern province of An Giang from August 27 to 28. 

NDO/VNA – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will continue to cooperate with and assist Vietnam in policy consultancy and capacity improvement, the IMF’s newly-accredited Resident Representative in Vietnam Francois Painchaud has said. 

NDO/VNA – National Assembly Vice Chairman Phung Quoc Hien held talks with his Lao counterpart Bounpone Bouttanavong in Hanoi on August 19. 

NDO/VNA – Secretary of the Party Central Committee and chief of its office Nguyen Van Nen has affirmed that under any circumstance, Vietnam will, together with Cambodia, develop their fine neighborliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation and long-term sustainability for the sake of prosperity of each country. 

NDO/VNA – Vietnam had a successful performance at the International Army Games 2019, which concluded in Moscow, Russia, on August 17. 

NDO – Politburo member Truong Thi Mai met with overseas Vietnamese (OVs) and the Vietnamese Embassy staff in Qatar on August 17 (local time). 

NDO – The Committees for External Relations of the National Assemblies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (CLV) opened their seventh conference in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province, on August 17. 

NDO –Member of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper, Thuan Huu, received Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Vietnam Yerlan Baizhanov at the Headquarters of Nhan Dan Newspaper in Hanoi on August 16. 

NDO/VNA – Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison and his spouse will pay an official visit to Vietnam from August 22 – 24.  

NDO/VNA – Vietnam has made contact with China to oppose its repeated serious violation and to demand that the country withdraw its survey vessel group, Haiyang Dizhi 8 and escort ships, out of Vietnam’s territorial waters, the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said on August 16.