VOV.VN - Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to work hand in hand to maintain order along the border to offer optimal conditions for cross-border trade activities.

The Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on December 26 organised a workshop on ASEAN festival tourism.

The "bamboo diplomacy" approach, coupled with a flexible foreign policy, has brought numerous achievements for Vietnam in its international relations this year, said Prof. Bharti Chhibber, an Indian expert in Vietnamese studies and ASEAN external policy.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his entourage arrived back in Hanoi on December 19 morning, wrapping up their working trip to Japan for the Commemorative Summit for the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation and bilateral activities from December 15-18 at the invitation of Japanese PM Kishida Fumio.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held separate meetings with President of the House of Councillors of Japan Otsuji Hidehisa and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nukaga Fukushiro, as part of his trip to Japan for the Commemorative Summit for the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation and bilateral activities.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held a meeting with former Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide on December 18 in Tokyo within the framework of his trip to the East Asian nation for the Commemorative Summit for the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called on ASEAN and Japan to strengthen cooperation amidst the global headwinds with various unprecedented challenges so as to develop their comprehensive strategic partnership into a symbol of international solidarity and cooperation.

Being the largest trade partner of Canada in ASEAN, with two-way trade topping US$7 billion in 2022, Vietnam will play an important role as a gateway for Canadian firms to enter the region bloc that has one of the highest growth rates in the world and is expected to be the world’s consumption centre by 2030 given its market size, according to Canadian business insiders.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh joined leaders of other ASEAN countries and Japan at the opening ceremony of a commemorative summit marking 50 years of the friendship and cooperation between ASEAN and Japan in Tokyo on December 17.

VOV.VN - As many as 30 cooperation documents were signed and exchanged by ministries, agencies, localities and businesses of Vietnam and Japan at a joint economic forum held in Tokyo on December 16.