The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has instructed its Consular Department to contact the Philippine Embassy in Vietnam and ask for support in assisting the Vietnamese citizens among the over 1,000 forced labourers recently rescued in Pampanga province of the archipelago nation.

Vietnamese basketball players have freshly defeated their Philippine rivals 21-16 to pocketed the gold medal in the women's 3x3 event at the ongoing 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia.

Vietnamese women basketballers defeated their Philippine rivals with a score of 21-19 in the 3x3 basketball category at the ongoing 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 32) on May 6.

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) of the Philippines has initiated a safeguard investigation on imported liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) steel cylinders, according to the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (TRAV) under the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The Philippines spent more than US$450 million importing some 900,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice in the first quarter of this year, and more orders are expected to be placed in the time ahead.

A Philippine sailor who had fallen ill aboard a Panama-flagged cargo ship was brought ashore for treatment at a hospital in Nha Trang city in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on April 1 night.

VOV.VN - Talented Vietnamese track-and-field athlete Quach Cong Lich and 15 other members of the local team are due to fly to the Philippines on March 19 ahead of competing in the CTSI Philippine Athletics Championships.

The Vietnamese national taekwondo team came home on March 14 as the top performer at the 16th ASEAN Taekwondo Championship in the Philippines.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national track-and-field team will participate in the Philippines Open Athletics Championships which is scheduled to take place from March 21 to March 26 in the Philippines.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has overtaken the Philippines to become the fourth largest automobile consumption market in Southeast Asia, behind only Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.