Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just approved a list of members of the Steering Committee for Regional and International Financial Centres in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national men’s and women’s football teams have both been placed in seed group No. 1 for the 33rd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 33), scheduled to take place this December in Thailand, according to the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).

VOV.VN - Vietnam is internationally recognised for its rich biodiversity, but this natural wealth is under severe threat from economic development, climate change, pollution, deforestation, and invasive species, warned Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Quoc Tri.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) tourism was highlighted at IMEX Frankfurt 2025 – one of the world’s premier trade shows for the travel industry, held in Germany from May 20 to 22.

VOV.VN - With the peak durian harvest season approaching in July, the recent approval of nearly 1,000 new growing area codes by Chinese customs signals expanded access for Vietnamese durian exports in this highly lucrative market.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh praised the reform in institutional and legal development, noting a shift in mindset, from a focus on state management to one of facilitating and serving the people and businesses, at a monthly Government meeting on law-making for May in Hanoi on May 22.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese diplomat to the United Nations called on countries to uphold international law, including the UN Charter and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), in resolving maritime disputes through peaceful means, at a high-level debate on maritime security for global stability at the UN Security Council on May 20-21.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinated with the Korea Copyright Commission (KCC) to organise a copyright conference and an inter-governmental meeting as part of the Republic of Korea (RoK) - Southeast Asia Copyright Forum 2025 that took place in Seoul from May 20-21.

A ceremony to commemorate, hand over and repatriate the remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives during the war in Laos was held on May 21 at the Military Command Headquarters of Salavan province in southern Laos.

A delegation from Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defence, led by Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Nghia, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, is attending the 2025 Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) Japan exhibition, held from May 20-23 in Chiba prefecture, Japan.