Vietnam

The Vietnam-Africa Friendship and Cooperation Association elected Deputy Commerce Minister Le Duong Quang as its President for the 2013-2018 period at its 18 October national congress, the second...

Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh was busy in southern Africa during August, following up on his government’s initiatives to increase trade levels and win business deals for state-owned...

Vietnamese politician Hoàng Bình Quân, who heads the National External Relations Committee, led a Communist Party delegation to Morocco, Tanzania, South Africa and Swaziland on 1-12 June to...

Technologie et Système d’Information/Korea Telelcom of South Korea has cried foul after Vietnam’s Viettel won Cameroon’s third mobile telephone licence in December 2012. TSI/KT claims that the tender...

On 7 September, Bui Thanh Son welcomed 200 Vietnamese companies and African diplomats to the Vietnam-Africa-Middle East Business Forum, an initiative of the Vietnam...

Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh is one of Vietnam’s most experienced diplomats. He was posted to Vietnam’s permanent mission to the United Nations for 14 years, leading...

Vietnam is pursuing an economic and political diversification programme and Doan Xuan Hung, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and special envoy of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, has...

Vietnam hosted its second African investment forum on 17-19 August in Hanoi with the theme 'Vietnam-Africa: Cooperation for Sustainable Development'. Attended by delegates from 30 African countries including...

The startling growth of its economy in the three decades after its war with the United States means Vietnam's strategies are of huge interest to many African states, war-torn or...

More so than China or India, Vietnam has much in common with Africa's developing countries. Hanoi is also showing itself to be keener on learning from African experiences...