The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has demonstrated its resilience and effective response to great challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and fierce competition between big countries, according to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc.

Vietnam always wants to promote solidarity, friendship, and comprehensive, sustainable and long-term cooperation with Cambodia, considering this a priority in its foreign policy, Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang told Cambodian guests in Hanoi on August 8.

As many as 75,377 people participated in an online quiz on Vietnam-Laos relations during its eighth week, according to the organising committee.

The 14th session of the 15th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee will open on August 9 and last for three days, during which full-time legislators are scheduled to consider and approve two draft resolutions.

The National Assembly (NA)'s Committee on Legal Affairs convened its seventh plenary session in Hanoi on August 8, focusing on the implementation of legal documents governing public employees.

The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency on August 8.

The transfer took place at the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington last week in the presence of representatives from the US Department of State and Department of Homeland Security.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs organised a ceremony in Hanoi on August 8 to fly the ASEAN flag in celebration of the bloc’s 55th founding anniversary (August 8, 1967) and 27th anniversary of Vietnam’s accession to the regional organization (July 28, 1995).

Member of the Central Party Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn penned an article entitled ’55 years of ASEAN: One Vision, One Identity, One Community’ on the 55th anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (August 8, 1967-2022).

Issues in the areas of public security and culture, sports and tourism will be the focus of the upcoming question-and-answer session of the 15th National Assembly (NA)’s 14th session on August 10, according to a freshly-released plan of the NA Standing Committee.

August 8, 2022, marks 55 years in a journey of formation and development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Over the past more than five decades, ASEAN has become a community and a major economy in the world with extensive security-political and cultural-society cooperation. And Vietnam is always a proud responsible and active member with significant contributions to building an ASEAN Community as it is today.

Vietnam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1 at the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has completed installing a 380m-long metal security fencing around a UNISFA military observation station in Abu Qussa on the border between South Sudan and Sudan.

The following is a list of selected news summaries last weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.

Following the fire at a fuel depot in Matanzas, Cuba on August 5th that caused serious damage, Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng, President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc sent messages of sympathy to Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.

Vietnam and Laos have made great contributions to the building of the ASEAN Community, Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumasay Kommasith has affirmed.

Top Vietnamese leaders have sent messages of sympathy to their Cuban counterparts over severe losses caused by a massive blaze in an oil storage facility in Cuba’s province of Matanzas on August 5.

The central province of Quang Nam held a ceremony on August 6 evening to commemorate the 110th birth anniversary of the late Chairman of the Council of State, Vo Chi Cong (August 7, 1912-2022).

Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyễn Hồng Thao has pledged to make more contributions to the progress and development of international law, for peace, friendship, cooperation and sustainable development in the world.

The domestic financial market has developed rapidly with outstanding results on the basis of cutting-edge technologies, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a meeting of the National Steering Committee for Comprehensive Finance in Hanoi on August 6.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has asked Samsung Electronics of the Republic of Korea to expand its operations in Việt Nam during a reception for the group’s CEO Roh Tae-Moon in Hà Nội on Friday.