#Vietnam - Thailand

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara on October 26 agreed to work to elevate their countries’ strategic partnership to a new height.

PSNews - Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung hosted talks with Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Police General Roy Inkapairoj, on the afternoon of July 3, in Hanoi.

Vietnam and Thailand will increase economic cooperation to soon raise bilateral trade turnover to US$25-30 billion in a more balanced direction.

Vice Director of the Municipal Police Department of Ho Chi Minh City Senior Colonel Mai Hoang  received a visiting high-ranking delegation of the Royal Thai Police led by Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Police Lieutenant General Sarawut Karnpanich, on the afternoon of September 29.

PSNews - The Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade on June 21 held a consultation workshop for exporters interested in the markets of Laos and Thailand.

General To Lam, Minister of Public Security on August 5, had a meeting with Mr. Nikorndej Balankura, newly-appointed Ambassador of Thailand to Vietnam.

Nikkei Asian Review has quoted the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) as saying that Southeast Asia will produce half of the world's laptops by 2030, with Vietnam and Thailand anticipated to be the region’s main manufacturing hub.

Top Vietnamese and Thai legislators have praised their bilateral cooperation across a variety of fields, especially in legislation and underlined the need to share common viewpoints and support each other in issues of shared concern at international and regional inter-parliamentary forums.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue received Ms. Jariya Chirathivat, general director of the Central Group Vietnam. As a new owner of Big C supermarket chain, Ms. Jariya vowed to closely support Vietnam in exporting products to Thailand.