VOV.VN - A seminar in northern Ninh Binh province on October 30 highlighted the need for strong investment in modern cultural infrastructure to bring the country’s cultural industries into a new era.

The Vietnam-Cambodia Business Forum 2025 was held in Ho Chi Minh City on October 11, aiming to foster business linkages and expand investment opportunities between enterprises of the two neighbouring countries.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry's HCM City Branch (VCCI-HCM), in collaboration with the Australian Embassy through the Aus4Skills Programme, released a report titled “Increasing Regional Logistics Linkages to Promote Socio-Economic Development in the Southeast Region” in HCM City on August 22.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos held a seminar in Vientiane on August 15 to look into operations of Vietnamese banks in Laos and measures for improving their performance.

The City Partnership Forum – Da Nang 2025 has taken place in a hybrid format, drawing leaders from ministries and agencies, representatives from 35 cities with current or planned ties to Da Nang, foreign ambassadors, consuls general, and delegations of international businesses and cultural groups.

Ho Chi Minh City will step up efforts to strengthen travel linkages with the expanded northwestern region to develop more unique tourism products, according to its Department of Tourism.

VOV.VN - A festival to introduce Vietnamese Phở (noodles) in the Republic of Korea (RoK) took place in Seoul on October 5 - 6 as part of efforts to enhance trade and tourism connectivity between the two countries.

The Consulate General of India in Ho Chi Minh City and the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the south-central province of Binh Thuan on December 22 organised a conference to promote tourism linkages between India and Vietnam’s coastal provinces.

Many southern localities have formed and optimised trans-regional tourism products to promote the attractiveness of both local and regional tourism.

A key measure to effective public investment disbursement is to promote investment with focuses, with priority given to regional linkage projects to create new socio-economic development spaces for localities, said Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Tran Van Son at a regular Cabinet press conference on March 3.