2020 is really a special year for Vietnam as for the first time in its diplomacy history, the country assumed both rotating ASEAN Chair and non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC), according to the Sputnik news agency of Russia.

VOV.VN - Local farm produce businesses have been advised to come up with concrete strategies to take full advantage of opportunities presented by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), according to insiders.

VOV.VN - The ASEAN Committee in Brasilia (ACB) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) recently held an online meeting aimed at discussing future trade and business co-operation opportunities and ways to develop further economic ties between Brazil and both ASEAN and the nation.

VOV.VN - A meeting between Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of China Shanghai Municipal Committee Yu Shaoliang, and Deputy Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai was held virtually on December 18 to discuss ways to step up bilateral cooperation.

Ambassador Tran Duc Binh, head of Vietnam’s permanent mission to ASEAN, highlighted the country’s outstanding achievements during its 2020 ASEAN Chairmanship in a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency.

VOV.VN - The garment sector has set an ambitious target of earning US$55 billion from export and generating 3 million jobs by 2025.

VOV.VN - The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is expected to boost regional and global supply chains and the economy of ASEAN members and partners.

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.

Vietnam’s chairmanship has ensured ASEAN has retained its ability to effectively channel regional cooperation, according to a senior analyst from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)’s defence and strategy programme.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has suggested Siam Cement Group (SCG) continue to expand its investment and business in Vietnam as a way of bringing major groups from Thailand as well as other nations to Vietnam in the time ahead.