The ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020 has contributed to effectively implementing the Party’s foreign policy, raising Vietnam’s role and position and helping the country create a firm stance in ASEAN and the region.

VOV.VN - Local authorities in the nation’s southwestern region have swiftly implemented drastic measures aimed at tightly controlling people entering cities and provinces from places that have high infection rates of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in order to ensure pandemic prevention in border areas.

VOV.VN - The Bureau of the FIFA Council moved to expand the number of teams participating in the 2023 Women’s World Cup on December 24, thereby creating a new challenge for the Vietnamese women’s football team.

VOV.VN - Hoa Ban, also known by their scientific name of Bauhinia Variegate, originate from the northwestern region and were initially spotted growing in the Central Highland city of Da Lat in 2007, with the flowers often blooming around December and filling the streets of the city with elegant white flowers.

The United States has intensified its interactions with ASEAN this year partly because Vietnam has been assuming ASEAN 2020 Chairmanship, said Prof. Pankaj Jha from India’s O.P. Jindal Global University in his article published on modernpolicy.eu on December 22.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has ratified a free frade agreement (FTA) with the European Union, and inked the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership , and another FTA with the United Kingdom, offering a window of opportunity for the country to boost trade with its partners.

VOV.VN - The year 2020 has seen many countries become more outspoken about the East Sea (known internationally as the South China Sea) through diplomatic notes exchanged at the UN.

VOV.VN - The ten months of the year witnessed the nation's exports to the Eurasian region record impressive growth, with two-way turnover reaching a sum of US$10.34 billion, marking a rise of 17.98%, according to figures released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

VOV.VN - The prospects for future co-operation with Indonesia remain very positive with Indonesia currently the largest economy in the region, while Vietnam has enjoyed the second fastest economic growth in Southeast Asia this year.

Thailand’s Consulate General in HCM City on Dec.17 presented 50,000 face masks along with and VND108 million (US$4,670) to flood-hit people in the central region through the Vietnam Fatherland Front in the city.