The Vietnamese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur held a Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration programme for the Vietnamese community in Malaysia on January 26.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Vu Quang Minh, rotating chairman of the Berlin ASEAN Committee (BAC), handed over the chairmanship role to Brunei after the committee’s seventh meeting held on December 11.

President Vo Van Thuong met with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei in San Francisco on November 16 (local time) on the sidelines of the ongoing APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in the US city.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Culture and Cuisine Week opened on October 27 in Brunei, with the event aiming to promote the unique culture and cuisine of the nation to the Brunei people and international friends.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, during his meeting with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah in Indonesia on September 6, proposed that Vietnam and Brunei soon negotiate and sign an inter-governmental agreement on rice trade, to help ensure national food security in their respective countries.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception for the new Ambassador of Brunei to Vietnam, Datin Paduka Malai Hajah Halimah Malai Haji Yussof, in Hanoi on July 6.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam on May 10 on the sideline of the 42nd ASEAN Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia.

Leaders of Brunei, Singapore, the Republic of Korea (RoK), Australia, Belarus, Bangladesh, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, ASEAN and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) sent messages and letters of congratulations to Vo Van Thuong on his election as President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by the 15th National Assembly.

VOV.VN - ASEAN has become Vietnam’s fourth largest seafood export market amid local seafood exports to the Philippines, Indonesia, and Brunei recording a sharp annual increase in January, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

VOV.VN - Brunei media have ran numerous articles highlighting Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to the country as a testament to the close-knit bilateral diplomatic ties with Vietnam.