VOV.VN - Vietnam enjoyed a trade surplus for the eighth consecutive year with US$26 billion over the past 11 months, three times higher than the figure recorded last year, heard a conference aimed at reviewing the industry and trade sector held on December 20 in Hanoi.

A hybrid Vietnam-Senegal business-networking event was held in Dakar on December 14, gathering representatives of the Senegalese Ministry of Commerce and about 50 firms from both countries.

The International Exhibition on Food and Beverage Products, Machinery, Equipment & Technology (Vietnam Foodtech) was launched on December 13 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Vice President of South Africa Paul Mashatile and his wife will begin a two-day official visit to Vietnam on December 13 at the invitation of Vice President of Vietnam Vo Thi Anh Xuan.

VOV.VN - Vietnam and Cambodia will work closely together to raise their two-way trade turnover to US$20 billion and complete land border demarcation and marker planting in the coming years.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has hosted a welcoming ceremony for Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet who arrived in Hanoi on December 11 morning for an official visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Moha Bovor Thipadei Hun Manet left Phnom Penh for Hanoi on December 11 morning, beginning a two-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien has asked stakeholders to speed up progress, complete procedures for importing electricity and coal, and build new transmission lines from Laos to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Cooperation in economics, trade and investment is increasingly emerging as the driving force and a new pillar in promoting the relationship of "Good neighborliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, long-term sustainability." between Vietnam and Cambodia.

VOV.VN - Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Bang Moon-kyu co-chaired the 13th meeting of the Vietnam-RoK Joint Committee for Trade, Industry and Energy Cooperation and the seventh meeting of the Joint Committee for the implementation of the Vietnam-RoK free trade agreement on December 7 in Seoul.