The 18th Vietnam International Trade Fair (Vietnam Expo 2020) opened at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City on December 3, with both regular and online booths to assist exhibitors.

Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Deputy Secretary Strategy, Policy and Industry at the Australian Department of Defence, Peter Tesch, co-chaired the fourth Vietnam - Australia defence policy dialogue held via videoconference on December 3.

An official of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) on December 3 spoke highly of the determination, efforts and achievements of Vietnam in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long and World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in Vietnam Kidong Park on December 3 co-chaired a health partnership meeting in Hanoi titled “Health Partnerships and Cooperation in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

VOV.VN - Vietnam attaches great importance to consolidating and strengthening cooperative relations with Russia in all areas, says Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong.

VOV.VN - A spokesperson for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 3 voiced Vietnam’s strong protest against Taiwan’s recent live-fire drills in the waters surrounding the Ba Binh island of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) islands.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith will lead a high-level delegation of the Lao Government to visit Vietnam and co-chair the 43rd session of the Vietnam-Laos Intergovernmental Committee from Dec. 4-6.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam International Food Industry Exhibition (Vietnam Foodexpo) and Vietnam International Food Technology Exhibition (Vietnam Foodtech) are due to take place between December 9 and December 12 in an online format.

VOV.VN - General To Lam, Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, on December 3 welcomed Kim Chang Yong, Commissioner General of the National Police Agency of the Republic of Korea, who is Vietnam for an official visit.

VOV.VN - Densavan district of Savanakhet province in Laos was hit by a huge explosion along the Vietnam-Laos border at 9 a.m. on December 3, leaving two Lao nationals dead and six others injured, including four Vietnamese people.