President Truong Tan Sang and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on November 7 congratulated Barack Obama on his re-election as President of the United States.
The Avian and Pandemic Influenza Initiative ( APII ) of the US Agency for International Development (U SAI D) and its partners held a workshop in Hanoi on October 31 to share experiences in building p lans to respond to pandemics.
A delegation of Vietnamese officials visited the supercarrier USS George Washington on October 20. The visit was made at the invitation of the US Embassy in Vietnam.
On October 17, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new five year programmes to help Vietnam address the impacts of climate change.
A report on Vietnam’s macro economy and future prospects of the Vietnamese market announced by the Hong Kong-Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) on October 2 shows that the Vietnamese economy will recover in the fourth quarter of this year.
President Truong Tan Sang urged the US government to recognise Vietnam as a market economy while receiving US Trade Representative Ronald Kirk in Hanoi on September 3.