Sydney, March 22 -- Cooperative ties between Vietnam and Australian states, including New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, have grown positively, substantively, and with greater depth in line with the bilateral Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, said Vietnamese Consul General in Sydney Nguyen Thanh Tung.

Talking with the Vietnam News Agency, Tung said the three states lead in Australia's economy, education, sci-tech and services, while presenting strong complementarities to Vietnam's development needs. Cooperation has expanded comprehensively, not only in such traditional areas as trade and investment, education - training, sci-tech, agriculture, tourism and people-to-people exchanges, but also into new areas, including dig...