Hanoi (VNA)๊ - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported l🗹ast night by the Vietnam News Agency.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov at the meeting in Hanoi on Mar💯ch 18. (Photo: VNA)

The host leader affirmed Vietnam always keeps inmind Uzbekistan’s wholehearted assistance during its struggle for independence,and that it attaches importance to the traditional friendship with therepublics that used to be part of the former Soviet Union, including Uzbekistan. Read full story

- Le Hoai Trung,Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee andChairman of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Rꦗelations, heldtalks with Liu Jianchao, Secretary of the Communist Party of Chia (CPC) CentralCommittee and Chairman of the CPC Central Committee’s Intern✱ational LiaisonDepartment, in Jilin province on March 18.

The talks between the delegations of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations and th🌌e CPC Central Committee’s International Liaison Department in Jilin province on March 18 (Photo: VNA)

The talks formed part of the CPV delegation’svisit to China at the invitation of the CPC Central Committee. Read full story

- Vietnam is ready toprovide favourabl🔯e conditions for APM Terminals to pilot green port projectsalong with a mechanism for📖 direct electricity trading from renewable energyprojects in Vietnam, said Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha while hosting theDanish company's CEO Keith Svendsen. 

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha (R) receives CEO of APM Terminals Keith ❀Svendsen in Hanoi on Ma💮rch 18. (Photo: VNA)

Ha said the traditional friendship and thenewly-established green strategic partnership between Vietnam and Denmark havecreated chances for Danish businesses to invest in Vietnam, especially in thefields of green economy, renewable energy and seaport infrastructure. Read full story

- 🍷Vietnameseও Ministerof Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held talks with his visiting Uzbek counterpartBakhtiyor Saidov in Hanoi on March 18.

At the talks between Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son his visiting Uzbek counterpart Bakhtiyor Sai𓂃dov in Hanoi on March 18. (Photo: VNA)

Stressing that it is the first visit to Vietnam byan Uzbek foreign minister since the two countries established diplomaticrelations in 1992, Son said this occasion serves as an opportunity for bothsides to review and agree on directions and measures to strengthen thelongstanding friendship and to promote practical bilateral cooperation in areasof their strengths. Read full story

- Vietnam’s elevationof relations with major and important partners reflects the strongly enhancedmutual understanding and political trust between the country and the partners,Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son told a question-and-answer session onMarch 18.

Replying to legislators’ questions at the event,part of the 31st meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Son citedParty General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as saying at the 32nd DiplomaticConference that the upgrade of Vietnam’s relations with important partners tocomprehensive strategic partnerships was a highly important result that carrieshistoric significance. Read full story

- Ministerof Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh on March 18 had a workingsession with visiting Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water ManagementMark Harbers, who expressed his country’s readiness to assist Vietnam inoffshore sand mining, groundwater management,🦋 and mineral exploitation.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh (R) and Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbersꦑ&nꦰbsp;at the meeting in Hanoi on March 18. (Photo: baotainguyenmoitruong.vn)

Harbers spoke highly of the active moves by theVietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) to protect theenvironment, especially nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. Read full story

- Vietnam's exports tothe US have steadily rebounded since late last year, experiencing robustgrowth in export value during the first two months of 2024.

Increased consumption in the US has led to arevival in orders, lifting Vietnam's export value to this market to 17.4billion USD in the first two months of the year, marking a notable 34% surgecompared to the corresponding period in 2023. Read full story

- While economicfreedom is declining around the world, Vietnam is bucking the general trend,with lot of work to do to join the ranks of economically free countries, saidRainer Zitelmann in his recent article published by the Washington DC-basednews outlet Washington Examiner.

In the article titled “Vietnam ‘has been adevelopment success story’: World Bank,” the author wrote no other country ofcomparable size has made such strong gains in the Index of Economic Freedom inrecent decades./. Read full story