The 13th annual meeting and fifth retreat of the Track II Network of ASEAN Defence and Security Institutions (NADI) opened in the central city of Da Nang on Tuesday.

Defence ministers of ASEAN member nations and Australia attended an informal meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) Retreat in Hanoi on Wednesday

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Tea Banh, and Lao Minister of National Defence Chansamone Channhalat in Hanoi on December 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh is paying an official visit to the Philippines from August 25-27 at the invitation of his Filipino counterpart Voltaire T. Gazmin.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations from May 6-8 will hold its seventh Defence Ministerial Meeting, the highest defence mechanism within the organisation, in Brunei’s capital city of Bandar Seri Begawan,