VOV.VN - Vietnam spent roughly US$1.35 billion importing seafood products during the eight months of the year, an increase of 17.3% compared to the same period from last year, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

VOV.VN - Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan (China) has injected over US$1.1 billion into Vietnam during the opening eight months of the year, ranking sixth among foreign investors in the country, according to the Foreign Investment Agency.

VOV.VN - The initial eight months of the year saw the country’s trade deficit with China reach US$39 billion, a figure which is US$3.8 billion more than in the entirety of last year.

The Vietnamese Embassy in China in collaboration with the Chinese Association of international friendship cultural festivals held the 22nd cultural exchange among diplomatic corps in China on September 17.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce regarding the establishment of a Working Group on Vietnam-China Trade Facilitation and the bilateral co-operation plan for the 2021 to 2025 period.

Vietnamese and Chinese competent agencies will strengthen cooperation in crime combat, and push ahead with the signing of an agreement on the transfer of sentenced persons.

VOV.VN - Vietnam always places great importance on developing the ties of friendship and neighborliness and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with China, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has said.

Separate economic ministerial-level consultations between ASEAN and its dialogue partners - China, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, and ASEAN Plus Three nations - took place virtually on September 13 within the framework of the 53rd ASEAN Economic Ministers' (AEM) Meeting.

VOV.VN - The US has unveiled an extension to the time limit for issuing the final conclusion of the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probe into stainless steel plates originating from the nation, according to the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam.

China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region donated medical supplies worth CNY62.55 million (roughly US$9.7 million) to aid Vietnam’s COVID-19 fight in a ceremony held in Nanning on September 11.