VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has asked the National ASEAN 2020 Committee, its sub-committees and Secretariat, ministries, and agencies to do their utmost to finalize preparations for Vietnam to take over the ASEAN Chairmanship from Thailand in early November 2019.
VOV.VN - China’s vessel Haiyang Yizhi 8 and its escorts encroaching in Vietnamese waters have revoked a backlash internationally. China’s activities have put the region and the world at risk and triggered a negative reaction.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to boost the sustainable development of the private business sector towards 2025 with a vision to 2030 with six major solutions.
VOV.VN - Despite the Philippine Department of Agriculture ending safeguard probes into rice imports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has recommended that local businesses remain cautious about exporting rice to the Philippines.
Pattaya City aims to develop its bayside location into a new economic hub, changing the direction of its management to support the Eastern Economic Corridor, along with tourism, and investment.
The National Assembly Standing Committee spent the whole day discussing reports evaluating the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and State budget in 2019 during the ongoing 38th session in Hanoi on October 15.
News and World Report of the US has ranked Vietnam eighth among 29 best economies to invest in, and first among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the list.
VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Government is ready to create the best possible conditions for foreign investors, including those from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said while hosting UAE Minister of Economy Sheikh Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri in Hanoi on October 15.
VOV.VN - Embassies of five ASEAN member states in Madrid, Spain joined together to participate in celebrations for ASEAN Family Day on October 13 which brought approximately 150 embassy staff, family members and ASEAN community representatives together.
Vietnamese NA Permanent Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong had separate meetings on October 13 with officials of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and Myanmar’s parliament on the sidelines of the 141st Assembly of the IPU (IPU-141) in Belgrade, Serbia.
Vietnamese entrepreneurs have played an important role in the country's socio-economic development and the process of global integration, according to President of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) Vu Tien Loc.
Deputy defence chiefs of ASEAN countries and Japan met in Tokyo, Japan from October 8-10 to discuss regional security, the future of the Indo-Pacific region and ASEAN’s initiatives for regional cooperation.
Vietnam is a bright spot in foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction in Southeast Asia, said Sam Cheong Chwee, Executive Director and Head of United Overseas Bank (UOB) Group’s Foreign Direct Investment Advisory Unit at UOB.
An ASEAN ministerial meeting in Manila, the Philippines, has agreed that five ASEAN nations – Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – will launch a joint bid to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup.
VOV.VN - The Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, co-hosted a launching workshop in Hanoi on October 10 to unveil the Quarter III Independent Assessment of Vietnam’s Macroeconomic Performance in the presence of several senior economic experts.
Vietnam has become a natural partner of Russia in its look-east policy for various reasons, said Ivan Timofeev, Director of Programmes at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency on October 9.
Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan received ambassadors and heads of Vietnam’s overseas representative diplomatic agencies for 2019-2022 in Hanoi on October 9.
VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Khanh Hai led a Vietnamese delegation at the fifth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports during the start of the event in the Philippines on October 9.
VOV.VN - Vietnam’s trade deficit with China has been increasingly widening, exceeding US$27 billion during the first nine months of the year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Trade readiness improvements and economic dynamism are driving Vietnam’s trade growth potential.
