Nhan Dan Online

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam on April 16 met with Chen Gang, member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Secretary of the CPC Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as part of his ongoing state visit to China.

Chinese mainstream media have given extensive and positive coverage to the talks and meetings between General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) Central Committee and President of Viet Nam To Lam and Chinese leaders during his ongoing state visit to the neighbouring country.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung on April 16 hosted a delegation of 52 leading US enterprises, led by Brian McFeeters, Interim President and CEO of the US–ASEAN Business Council (USABC), currently on a working visit to explore investment and cooperation opportunities in Viet Nam.

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man attended a policy dialogue aimed at promoting Viet Nam–Türkiye cooperation within the framework of his working visit to Türkiye on the afternoon of April 16 (local time).

Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man on April 16 held talks with Chairman of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili, on the sidelines of the 152nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-152) in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Viet Nam’s National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on the afternoon of April 16 (local time) as part of his trip to attend the 152nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-152) and conduct a number of bilateral activities in Türkiye.

Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung chaired the 34th meeting of the National Steering Committee on combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Ha Noi on April 16, urging stronger enforcement to fix remaining shortcomings and secure the removal of the European Commission (EC)’s “yellow card” warning.

At the second plenum of the 14th Party Central Committee, General Secretary and State President To Lam stressed that “high economic growth must serve the interests of the people, improve their material and spiritual well-being, and ensure social equity”.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra on April 16 met with Honna Hitoshi, President and CEO of Japan’s erex Co., Ltd., highlighting the value of practical international cooperation programmes like the one with erex in enhancing the quality of Viet Nam’s civil service.

Amid a rising wave of high-tech crime, the banking sector is rolling out comprehensive measures ranging from legal reforms and data cleansing to centralised risk monitoring systems, with the aim to enhance transaction security and build a protective shield for customers’ accounts in the digital environment.

In the Mekong Delta, where livelihoods are closely tied to land, unlocking rural potential as a space for business is seen as key to fostering private sector development and improving farmers’ incomes.

Binh Da Festival 2026, a national intangible cultural heritage, held in honour of Lac Long Quan, the legendary ancestor of the country, will take place on April 22, or the sixth day of the third lunar month, with a series of distinctive traditional cultural activities.