VOV.VN - The 37th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits got underway at the Hanoi International Convention Centre on November 12 via a videoconference, with various leaders from each of the 10 ASEAN members and important partners in attendance.

VOV.VN - The nation will contribute US$100,000 to ASEAN’s COVID-19 fund, while it has pledged to contribute US$5 million worth of medical supplies to the Regional Reserve of Medical Supplies, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the 37th ASEAN Summit held in Hanoi on November 12.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong has emphasised that maintaining peace, stability, solidarity, and unity underlined by the principle of international law in the region should continue to be part of the core values of Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Community.

VOV.VN - The 37th ASEAN Summit and related summits opened at the international convention centre in Hanoi on November 11 via an online platform, with leaders of the 10 ASEAN member states and important partners in attendance.

Vietnam has performed remarkably well as Chair of ASEAN in the face of all the obstacles and hurdles, said Choi Shing Kwok, Director of Singapore’s ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and head of the ASEAN Studies Centre under ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.​

VOV.VN - Vietnam has done a good job in its role as the ASEAN Chair 2020 amidst COVID-19 challenges both regionally and globally, said diplomats ahead of the 37th ASEAN Summit and its related meetings due to start on November 12.

VOV.VN - The Straits Times, a daily English-language broadsheet newspaper in Singapore, ran an article on November 9 that detailed some impressive achievements by the nation in its role as ASEAN Chair 2020.

VOV.VN - Providing that the internal procedures involving all related countries are completed in time, the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is scheduled to take place on November 15, according to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and General Secretary of the National ASEAN 2020 Committee Nguyen Quoc Dung.

As Vietnam is serving as ASEAN Chair in 2020, many Russian experts have their belief in the Southeast Asian nation’s activeness in promoting ASEAN-Russia cooperative relations.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hopes to strengthen economic, trade and investment co-operation with Thailand, whilst accelerating the signing of co-operation documents between various localities, in addition to calling for combined efforts to elevate annual trade turnover between the two nations to US$20 billion.