VOV.VN - The Swiss – Viet Economic Forum (SVEF) will explore cooperation opportunities in trade, investment, finance, innovation, and research to help further strengthen the friendship and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Switzerland in 2025.

Vietnam-China trade reached US$19.66 billion in December 2024, according to the General Department of Customs.

The Government on January 15 issued a resolution on visa exemptions for citizens of Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland as part of a tourism stimulus programme in 2025.

Industry giants such as Vingroup, Mobile World Investment Corporation, FPT Retail and Hoang Anh Gia Lai are all in the pipeline to introduce their prized stocks to the public sphere.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha received Tan Wangeng, Director of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) in Hanoi on January 15.

Blue-beret Vietnamese officers and soldiers who are on duties in UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan, Abyei, and at the UN Headquarters in New York, joined warm moments with their comrades and relatives at home during an online exchange programme on January 15, celebrating the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.

Kim Long Motor Hue Joint Stock Company and Changan Automobile Group (China) on January 14 signed a cooperation agreement to build a passenger car factory at an industrial park in the central city of Hue that will be capable of producing 50,000 vehicles per year.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Trade Office in Algeria organized a workshop with representatives of several trade promotion organizations and businesses of Algeria on January 15 to review economic - trade cooperation between the two countries in 2024 and discuss measures to strengthen bilateral cooperation in 2025 and beyond.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) officially signed a loan agreement with the Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank (TPBank) under the Private Sector Investment Finance (PSIF) project on January 14.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son hosted a reception in Hanoi on January 15 for Ali Ijaz Ahmad, Chief Executive Officer of Singapore-based Makara Capital, urging the group to support Vietnam in developing international financial centres.