VOV.VN - The Vietnam Embassy in Canada and the Canada-Vietnam Trade Council co-hosted a webinar on December 3 to discuss trade ties under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), with future relations in the post-novel coronavirus (COVID-19) period also under discussion.

VOV.VN - In the face of the latest developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam will temporarily not conduct commercial flights to bring home citizens who voluntarily pay for quarantine fees.

Representatives from the Vietnamese National Assembly and the European Parliament (EP) discussed the implementation of the European Union – Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), during an online meeting on December 2.

The 14th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) and the seventh ADMM Plus will be held online from December 9-10.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Defence Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien was joined by New Zealand's Secretary of Defense Andrew Bridgman as the pair chaired the third Vietnam-New Zealand defence policy dialogue via an online platform, with numerous ambassadors and defence personnel from each side in attendance.

VOV.VN - A number of universities throughout Ho Chi Minh City have granted permission to students to remain at home from December 2 in an effort to fight the potential spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) following community cases being detected in the southern city.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on December 2 chaired a regular Government meeting for November, with there now being less than 30 days until the end of the year, which has represented a period full of fluctuations, challenges, and difficulties.

VOV.VN - Nearly 360 Vietnamese citizens, including children under the age of 18, the elderly, people with illnesses, students without accommodation due to dormitory closure and others in extremely difficulty circumstances were repatriated home safe and sound on December 1.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed the nation’s readiness to boost closer coordination with other nations in containing the COVID-19 pandemic during his phone talks with his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte on November 30.

VOV.VN - National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, in co-ordination with competent Vietnamese agencies in Europe, North America, and Africa, conducted repatriation flights on November 29 and November 30 to bring home roughly 350 Vietnamese citizens left stranded abroad by the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.