Australian press highlights Vietnamese Prime Minister’s visit (VOV)

The Herald weekly carried on its front page an article and a photo of the Vietnamese PM and his wife at the plane’s door after landing in Canberra.

SBS radio devoted four minutes to the visit and published a story on its website to highlight the signing of the strategic partnership.
The ABC group and the The Courier weekly ran similar stories and photos of the welcome ceremony, the talks, and the signing of documents by the two Prime Ministers.
The articles noted that Vietnam and Australia have officially ramped up diplomatic ties ahead of a special summit of South East Asian leaders, with the two PMs signing a bilateral strategic partnership aimed at deepening defence, security, trade, investment, development, and tourism.  
Australia’s Financial Review said that the upgrade of Vietnam-Australia relationship comes as the two countries’ strategic priorities are increasingly aligned. It quoted Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull as saying that Vietnam is the 4th biggest source of international students for Australia, the 6th largest market for agricultural products, and more than one quarters of the bread used in Vietnam’s signature dish, banh mi, came from Australian wheat. The newspaper said that Australia and Vietnam are both signatories to the revamped Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Australia also has the 2nd largest Vietnamese population outside the country.