Xi, Vietnamese leaders to meet representatives of China-Vietnam people friendship festival

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vietnamese leaders To Lam and Luong Cuong will meet with representatives of the China-Vietnam people friendship festival in Hanoi on Tuesday.

Xi arrived in Vietnam on Monday to pay a state visit to Vietnam at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee To Lam and Vietnamese President Luong Cuong.

His visit coincides with the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Vietnam, as well as the China-Vietnam Year of People-to-People Exchanges.

Vietnam is the first leg of Xi's three-nation Southeast Asian tour, which will also take him to Malaysia and Cambodia from Tuesday to Friday.

Xi, Vietnamese leaders to meet representatives of China-Vietnam people friendship festival

The U.S. dollar weakened in late trading on Wednesday.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, fell 0.32 percent to 99.648 at 1900 GMT.

In late New York trading, the euro was up to 1.1607 dollars from 1.1523 dollars in the previous session, and the British pound climbed to 1.3324 dollars from 1.3189 dollars in the previous session.

The U.S. dollar bought 158.82 Japanese yen, lower than 158.95 Japanese yen in the previous session. The U.S. dollar decreased to 0.7931 Swiss francs from 0.8008 Swiss francs, and it was down to 1.3895 Canadian dollars from 1.3937 Canadian dollars. The U.S. dollar slipped to 9.3935 Swedish kronor from 9.4895 Swedish kronor.

US dollar ticks down