Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hailed the development of bilateral ties while receiving Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo in Hanoi on December 5.

Vietnam, as Chair of the UN Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 2206 concerning South Sudan, on December 13 (US time) briefed the council on the committee's operations over the past two years.

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a new issue of interest of most central banks and economists and lawmakers in the world. In short, CBDC is a generic term for a version of currency that could use an electronic record or digital token to represent the digital form of a nation’s currency. CBDC is issued and managed directly by the central bank and could be circulated like a traditional currency. This article discusses CBDC’s economic and legal aspects, including CBDC technologies, its advantages and downsides and possible legal reforms for issuance of CBDC.

Vietnam’s two biosphere reserves of Nui Chua and Kon Ha Nung have received UNESCO recognition after a vote at the ongoing meeting in Nigeria.

Mutual legal assistance in criminal matters is an effective channel to handle criminal cases involving overseas investigation and collection of documents and evidence. However, the result of mutual legal assistance on wildlife-related crimes remains below expectations mostly because of belated response to mutual legal assistance request. This article reviews the current situation of mutual legal assistance in handling wildlife-related criminal cases and puts forth some recommendations to improve the effectiveness of this work.

Islands may generate maritime zones in the same foot as land territory. This possibility led to the fact that islands have been made use of to generate excessive maritime claims in state practices. To some extent, these practices are diluting the coherence and the main purpose of the regime of islands in international law.

Baggio Carlitos Linska, a Mozambique citizen, was arrested last September when trying to flee Vietnam after swindling a large sum of money from two local banks.

Vietnam and Nigeria seek to consolidate and develop solidarity, friendly relations and multifaceted cooperation between the two countries and their ruling parties, agreed Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and visiting Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on April 18 in Hanoi.