Regional leaders stressed that ASEAN's ability to preserve its central role and transform challenges into opportunities will be critical to the region's future.
Prime Minister Lê Minh Hưng proposed three strategic aspirations for ASEAN at the opening of the third ASEAN Future Forum (AFF) on Tuesday morning in Hà Nội.
Economists say the region's next phase of development will depend less on low-cost manufacturing and more on its ability to deepen regional integration, strengthen domestic demand and build the infrastructure needed to support higher-value industries.
Based on the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between Việt Nam’s National Assembly and Thailand’s House of Representatives, signed in 2023, Việt Nam and Thailand agreed to continue exchanges of delegations at all levels, expand interactions between parliamentary friendship groups.
The two sides also agreed to maximise the effectiveness of the Việt Nam–Thailand Joint Trade Committee, reduce trade barriers, facilitate market access for each other's products, and work towards achieving bilateral trade of US$25 billion in the near term and US$50 billion in the longer term.
Prime Minister Lê Minh Hưng proposed three strategic aspirations for ASEAN at the opening of the third ASEAN Future Forum (AFF) on Tuesday morning in Hà Nội.
From bustling fabrication workshops and high-tech factories to smart urban infrastructure systems, a powerful spirit of innovation is spreading among workers and engineers across HCM City.
Vietnamese banks may be allowed to close payment accounts that have been inactive for three years or more under proposed amendments to regulations governing non-cash payments.
Although the dish is prepared in various localities across Việt Nam’s northern mountainous region, the people of Lạng Sơn have embraced it as one of their signature specialties.
Việt Nam has consistently demonstrated a proactive and constructive role in addressing regional and global challenges, actively promoting dialogue, compromise and peaceful solutions to complex issues, according to Russian scholars.