Hanoi, August 29 (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and President To Lam received Liu Ning, member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Committee of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in Hanoi on August 28.

Welcoming the Guangxi delegation, the host highly valued their working visit to Vietnam, which he said will help promote border localities’ leading role in realising the latest common perceptions reached between the two Parties and countries’ leaders about further enhancing the Vietnam - China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and promoting the building of a community of shared future. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Liu Ning, member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Committee of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in Hanoi on August 28, asking the Chinese side to enhance cooperation with Vietnam to boost the connectivity of transport infrastructure and soft infrastructure at border gates.

PM Chinh affirmed that the two Parties and countries attach great importance to locality-to-locality cooperation, and they support their localities, especially border ones, to advance friendship exchanges and mutually beneficial cooperation. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has demanded efforts be ramped up to eradicate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing while leaders of poor-performing localities be stringently handled as a European Commission (EC) delegation will come to Vietnam for the fifth inspection this October.

He made the request while chairing a meeting held on August 28 to review results of the IUU fishing combat in efforts to have the EC’s “yellow card” warning lifted. The event was connected with all the 28 coastal provinces and cities via videoconference. Read full story

- Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and head of its Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) Doraisamy Raja, who is leading a CPI delegation to visit Vietnam, held talks in Hanoi on August 28.

At the talks, Trung highly valued the friendship and cooperation between the two parties, affirming that CPV always attaches importance to the role and position of the CPI. Read full story

- Numerous international experts have told the Vietnam News Agency their opinions that Vietnam's bamboo diplomacy has achieved historically significant milestones, especially amidst a rapidly evolving and complex global landscape that presents new challenges in international relations.

Journalist Gaston Fiorda, an expert on Southeast Asian issues at Argentina’s national radio, emphasised that the diplomacy, articulated by the late Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and reaffirmed by Party General Secretary and State President To Lam in his recent article, represents a clear and decisive foreign policy focused on international integration and contributions to maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world. Read full story

- Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. Gen Luong Tam Quang delivered a call for enhanced regional cooperation against transnational crime, at the 18th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC-18) held in Vientiane on August 28.

In his speech, Quang presented a series of proposals to bolster the collective efforts against cross-border criminal activities, including the intensification of information sharing on criminal activities and joint task forces to investigate and verify crimes Read full story

- Delegations of the Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) and the China Coast Guard (CCG) joined in an exchange on the VCG’s Vessel 8004 in the northern city of Hai Phong on August 28 as part of their first exchange programme on Party and political affairs.

The Vietnamese delegation was led by Political Commissar of the VCG Lieutenant General Bui Quoc Oai while the Chinese side by Deputy Political Commissar of the CCG Major General Liu Houjie. Read full story

- Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. Gen. Luong Tam Quang on August 28 had a meeting with Secretary-General of ASEAN Kao Kim Hourn in Vientiane, Laos, on August 28 on the sidelines of the 18th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC-18).

At the meeting, Minister Quang thanked the ASEAN chief and ASEAN Secretariat for their support for the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security in effectively implementing cooperation activities within the framework of the ASEAN multilateral mechanism on preventing and combating transnational crimes. Read full story

- A bronze statue of Goddess Durga which was illegally trafficked into the US and repatriated to Vietnam will be displayed to the public in the coming time, said a representative from the National Museum of History.

The museum held a ceremony to announce the results of the repatriation of the statue in Hanoi on August 28./. Read full story