More than 200 overseas Vietnamese and French friends gathered with various organisations at the Place de la République in Paris on May 4 to express their support for Vietnamese-French Tran To Nga and Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims of Vietnam in a lawsuit against chemical companies that supplied herbicides to the US military during the war in Vietnam.

The Court of Appeal of Paris will open a hearing in early May regarding a lawsuit filed by Vietnamese-French Tran Thi To Nga against US chemical corporations that supplied Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin for the US army during the war in Vietnam.

The Belgian Chamber of Representatives on June 20 held a hearing on a draft resolution in support of Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin.

Malaysian prosecutors said on March 18 that they would summon representatives of two units of US Investment Bank Goldman Sachs in London and Hong Kong to appear at a June hearing of a case linked to corruption in state investment fund 1MDB.

The Indonesian Anti-Dumping Committee (KADI) recently announced a statement of essential facts on the anti-dumping investigation of colour-coated steel sheets imported from Vietnam and China.

Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam, one of the two women suspects in the murder of Kim Chol, a man believed to be the half-brother of the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un, pleaded not guilty when brought to the High Court of Malaysia on October 2.

Vietnamese and Malaysian lawyers are actively collecting evidence to defend Doan Thi Huong, a Vietnamese suspect in the death of a citizen of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

A Malaysian court in Sepang district of Malaysia’s Selangor state postponed a hearing for two women suspected in the death of a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) citizen to May 30.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc takes floor at National Assembly’s first hearing on Nov 17.

A question and answer session of the 14th National Assembly’s second sitting began on Nov. 15.

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court of Cambodia has again issued a warrant summoning Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy for a hearing in July, the court announced on April 26.

The Directorate General of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties (DGAD) of India will arrange a hearing for the imposition of an anti-dumping tax on Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) imported from Vietnam.