VOV.VN - Japan will provide US$1.5 million in emergency non-refundable aid to help Vietnam recover from severe storm and flood damage in the central region, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on December 12.

VOV.VN - Southeast Asia’s largest automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) officially commenced operations in southern Tay Ninh province, marking a turning point in completing Vietnam’s logistics ecosystem, tackling post-harvest preservation challenges, and enhancing the international value of Vietnamese agricultural products.

The Management and Sustainable Development Institute (MSD), the lead organisation of the Social Open Innovation Community, officially launched the SOAR Initiative (Social Open Innovation for All Resilience) on December 12.

AIA Group wants to continue long-term investment and cooperation in the Vietnamese market, making practical contributions to the country’s socio-economic development, its Independent Non-executive Chairman Mark Tucker told Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc at their meeting in Hanoi on December 12.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested building a workforce for external information service with resilience, intelligence, creativity, responsibility, dedication and vision that committed to promoting the positive and addressing the negative.

Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dato’ Seri Utama Haji Mohamad Bin Haji Hasan has affirmed that Malaysia will continue assisting Vietnam in developing the Halal industry and combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

VOV.VN - As part of the 2025 European Phở Week, the Vietnamese Embassies in Germany and Bulgaria simultaneously organized events to promote Phở (Vietnamese noodle soup) on December 12, coinciding with the annual “Phở Day”.

VOV.VN - The European Union (EU) Delegation to Vietnam hosted the EU-Vietnam Sustainable Design Awards (EVSDA) 2025 on the evening of December 12 in Hanoi, marking a milestone in the ongoing cooperation between the EU and Vietnam to promote sustainable development through culture, creativity, and innovation.

A Vietnam-Japan intellectual property (IP) protection workshop was held in Hanoi on December 12 to enhance professional exchanges between Vietnam’s market surveillance forces and Japanese organisations and businesses.

As Vietnam plans to increase its total industrial park area to 181,000ha by 2030, experts and enterprises at the IP Forum 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City on December 11 stressed that strong economic diplomacy will be needed to attract high-quality projects.