VOV.VN - The 23rd Vietnam - China International Trade Fair is scheduled to get underway in Lao Cai city of the northern province of the same name from November 10 to 15, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Vancouver and the ASEAN member consulates-general held a friendly sports event called the "Charity Golf Tournament" on August 11 to mark ASEAN Day and raise funds for social activities in British Columbia province of Canada.

Two Vietnamese films – “Yellow Flowers on Green Grass” and “Yen’s Life” – are competing in the first ASEAN Film Festival in Hong Kong (China).

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) and the Consulate of Indonesia organised ASEAN Fun Walk 2023 on August 12, with the event drawing the participation of approximately 1,000 local and foreign runners.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieut. Gen Nguyen Duy Ngoc on August 11 suggested major solutions for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to raise the efficiency of anti-drug cooperation.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieut. Gen Nguyen Duy Ngoc held talks with his Lao counterpart Khamkinh Phuilamanivong in Vientiane on August 10.

The Vietnamese National Assembly (NA)'s delegation had bilateral meetings with delegation heads from AIPA observer nations on the occasion of the 44th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-44) in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 8.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called on US healthcare giant Abbott to expand its investment and upgrade the quality of its pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Vietnam as a way of promoting the domestic pharmaceutical industry.

VOV.VN - As many as 200 manufacturing enterprises, including nearly 100 foreign buyers, are set to gather at the FBC ASEAN 2023 – a Manufacturing Business Matching event which is scheduled to take place in Hanoi from August 23 to 28.

ASEAN, over the past 56 years, has gradually affirmed its position as a pillar of peace, an epicentrum of growth and a nucleus of dialogue and cooperation in the region, wrote Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son in an article named “ASEAN: Epicentrum of peace, cooperation, development” on the occasion of the group’s 56th founding anniversary (August 8, 1967-2023).