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.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha received Philippine Secretary of Energy Raphael Perpetuo M. Lotilla on the sidelines of the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo, Japan on March 4.

Doctors from Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have assisted their colleagues at Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) of the Philippines with using robots to perform Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer surgeries.

VOV.VN - ASEAN has become Vietnam’s fourth largest seafood export market amid local seafood exports to the Philippines, Indonesia, and Brunei recording a sharp annual increase in January, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Vietnam- Philippines economic relations have thrived even at the height of the pandemic, as evidenced by the steady growth of their total bilateral trade, which reached US$5.8 billion in 2021, and US$3.12 billion as of June last year.