Vietnam came back from time to time to secure a 3-2 victory over the Philippines in the World Cup qualifier at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on June 6 evening.

China is ready to work together with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to conclude negotiations for version 3.0 of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen has said.

The Vietnam-Belarus relationship is developing strongly, and the two countries boast potential to expand their cooperation in many fields, said Chairman of the Council of Experts of the Eurasian Research Fund Grigory Trofimchuk.

The National Assembly (NA) approved the Law on Telecommunications (revised) on November 26 as part of its ongoing sixth sitting.

The Deaprtment of Culture and Sports of the northern moutainous province of Lao Cai, and the Swami Vivekananda culture centre at the Indian Embassy in Vietnam co-organised a Vietnam - India art exchange programme in Lao Cai city on August 12.

The steering committee of the “Eco-industrial park intervention in Vietnam – perspective from global eco-industrial parks programme” project has convened a meeting to review its implementation in 2022 and put forth another implementation plan until May 2024.

Vietnam’s outbound investments reached 115.1 million USD in the first two months of this year, 2.16 times higher than that the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

An 11-year-old girl from southeast Cambodia's Prey Veng province had died of H5N1 human avian influenza, the country's Ministry of Health's Communicable Disease Control Department reported on February 22.

In an effort to combat global climate change and extreme weather patterns which have caused severe human and property losses, Vietnam is resolved to plant 1 billion trees in the 2021-2025 period.

The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate for the US dollar at 23,655 VND/USD on December 12, down 2 VND from the last working day of previous week (December 9).

A book titled “Memories of 65 years with Vietnam” by Evgeny V. Kobelev, Vice Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)'s Institute of China and Modern Asia, was introduced at a ceremony in Moscow on December 7.

Vietnam defeated Chinese Taipei 4-0 in a Group F match in the qualifiers of the AFC U17 Asian Cup 2023, which took place at Viet Tri Stadium in the northern province of Phu Tho on October 5.

Vietnam won Myanmar 3-1 in their group-stage match at the 2022 Southeast Asian U19 Football Championship on July 8.

Vietnam won a silver medal in Muay’s wai kru (pre-fight ritual performance) event at the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) on May 17.

The escalating oil and gas prices would reduce and even neutralise the effect of the 2-percent VAT cut which was intended to stimulate consumption, stir growth and reduce inflation pressure, thus resulting in failure to achieve the growth target, losses to the budget and rising inflation, according to Nguyen Bich Lam, former Director General of the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 28 ordered preparations in all aspects at a higher level than usual during the first Government regular meeting of 2022 as no one can forecast all possible unexpected developments and there may be more difficulties and challenges than advantages and opportunities.

The Logistics Forum Vietnam 2021 will take place on December 14, focusing on logistics human resources development.

The emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant could impact the recovery of trade in goods and services in ASEAN economies, said Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy, researcher at the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute of Singapore.

Dubai-based Al Khaleej Sugar Co. (AKS) plans to invest 2 billion USD to develop a sugar factory and supporting facilities in Indonesia, which could help fill the country’s supply gap.

The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the south central province of Binh Thuan is discussing plans to reopen Mui Ne to visitors on October 20 after a months-long shutdown.