ASEAN is poised to enter 2025–2026 with strong momentum in education benchmarking, as Vietnam’s Grade 5 students recorded the highest scores in Mathematics and Reading in the 2024 cycle of the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics, according to results released on December 4 in Manila.

VOV.VN - US travel website AFAR has listed Da Nang city among its 26 places to go in 2026, making it the only Vietnamese destination to appear on the ranking.

VOV.VN - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) To Lam and General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President Thongloun Sisoulith co-chaired a high-level meeting in Vientiane on the afternoon of December 2 as part of the former’s state visit to Laos.

VOV.VN - International food website TasteAtlas has included 12 Vietnamese dishes in its list of the Top 100 Southeast Asian specialities.

VOV.VN - Tran Thanh Man, Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, held a cordial meeting with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei in Hanoi no December 1, affirming a shared commitment to strengthen bilateral and parliamentary cooperation.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and President Thongloun Sisoulith of Laos hosted a welcoming ceremony for Party General Secretary To Lam of Vietnam and his entourage in Vientiane on December 1.

Da Nang has made its debut in the world’s Top 1,000 startup ecosystems, a milestone that underscores the city’s accelerating innovation agenda, according to StartupBlink’s 2024 global ranking.

VOV.VN - Mui Ne in Lam Dong province, Vietnam's Central Highlands, has been listed among the top 10 trending global destinations for 2026, according to Booking.com’s annual Travel Predictions.

VOV.VN - Nguyen Thanh Vinh, the runner-up in the first “Road to Olympia” competition, has been recognized as one of Australia’s top 250 researchers in 2026, according to The Australian’s 2026 Research magazine.

Vietnam has been listed among the world’s top 50 countries with the highest music copyright revenue, and among the top 10 digital-revenue markets in the Asia–Pacific region, according to the Vietnam Centre for Protection of Music Copyright (VCPMC).