Border guards stationed in Vietnam’s northern province of Dien Bien coordinated with their counterpart in China’s Yunnan province held a joint patrol along the shared border on January 12.

VOV.VN - Morocco will facilitate help for Vietnamese companies seeking to secure access to local and regional markets, based on their own experience acquired by doing business in Africa, said Moroccan Ambassador to Vietnam Jamale Chouaibi.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese tourism industry has drawn up plans aimed at receiving Chinese travelers after the Chinese Government moved to ease COVID-19 restrictions and reopen its borders on January 8.

Ho Chi Minh City always welcomes and creates optimal conditions for investors from Hong Kong (China) to operate in the city, stated Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Phan Van Mai while receiving Jonathan Choi, Chairman of the Hong Kong-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce on January 12.

VOV.VN - Hosts Vietnam will take on visitors Thailand in their first leg match of the ongoing AFF Cup 2020 final in Hanoi on January 13 evening, with both sides expecting a win to gain an advantage in the other match on January 16.

VOV.VN - Kim Jin-pyo, speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea (RoK), arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on January 12 evening, beginning an official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Vuong Dinh Hue.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception in Hanoi on January 12 for Hanazumi Hideyo, Governor of Japan's Niigata prefecture, during which the Vietnamese leader suggested that Niigata foster partnership with Vietnamese localities.

The Department of Commerce of China’s Guangxi province, in collaboration with the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Asia-Africa Market Department and Vinexad Company, held a Guangxi-Vietnam trade and economic cooperation conference in Hanoi on January 12.

Germany's weekly Die Zeit (The Times) has ran an article spotlighting Vietnam's prosperous economy and its open-door policy to investors, affirming that these has helped attract more German firms to explore investment and business opportunities in the country.

Visiting Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone co-chaired the two countries’ investment cooperation conference in Vientiane on January 12.