Hanoi, June 3 -- Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang received General Romeo Brawner Jr., Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, in Hanoi on June 3 during the latter's official visit to Vietnam. At the meeting, Giang, who is also a Politburo member and Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, welcomed the recent signing of a memorandum of understanding on bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries' defence ministries. He described the agreement as proof of the efforts by the armed forces of both countries to put into action the shared understandings reached by their high-ranking leaders on military and defence cooperation. The signing also serves ...