An economic and trade promotion conference between Vietnam’s Lao Cai province and Dali city of China’s Yunnan province took place in Lao Cai ward on October 21, marking an important step toward strengthening friendship and practical cooperation between the two localities.

VOV.VN - Renowned European music duo Secret Garden met with the press in Hanoi on October 17, ahead of their first-ever concert in Vietnam, which will take place at the National Convention Center on October 18.

VOV.VN - The fifth Regional Conference of the Organisation of World Heritage Cities - Asia and the Pacific (OWHC-AP) concluded on October 16 in Hue city, following three days of productive discussions.

Draft documents for the upcoming 14th National Party Congress were released during a press conference in Hanoi on October 15.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Industry and Trade will host a Vietnam-Cambodia trade and investment conference in An Giang province on October 17, aiming to boost trade promotion, import-export activities, and regional cooperation.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 9 chaired a nationwide teleconference to launch the National Target Programme on Drug Prevention and Control to 2030.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, on October 6 chaired the first informal consultation with State Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), in his capacity as the designated President of the 11th NPT Review Conference, scheduled for April 2026.

Nobel Laureate in Physics Professor Serge Haroche is among dozens of world-renowned scientists attending the international conference “100 Years of Quantum Physics,” which opened on October 7 in the central province of Gia Lai.

Around 500 domestic and international delegates are expected to attend the 38th Annual Conference of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA 2025), which will take place in Hanoi from October 11–13, 2025, according to a press briefing on October 6.

The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in Developing Countries (SAADC) opened on October 1 at Can Tho University.