Vietnamese rice exports in 2020 are expected to be more prosperous thanks to a series of free trade agreements (FTAs) coming into force, after plummeting in both export volume and value in 2019.

Border closures aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus may offer a glimpse of what an all-out trade war would do to the world economy, according to the head of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Local enterprises have urged the Government to soon activate support policies to help them overcome difficulties in production and business due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Vietnam’s fresh produce industry is unlikely to hit its 2020 export targets because of coronavirus but there are domestic opportunities.

The ASEAN-Russia Joint Cooperation Committee (ARJCC) convened the 18th annual meeting at the ambassadorial level in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 13 to discuss launching projects and promoting bilateral ties.

The conclusion of text-based negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in November 2019 paves the way for the economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to strengthen their economic integration with five of its dialogue partners, namely Australia, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and New Zealand.

Kishore Mahbubani, former Singaporean Ambassador to the United Nations, once declared, “When ASEAN [the Association of Southeast Asian Nations] was born on the 8th of August 1967, it was destined to fail.” After all, Southeast Asia was, and continues to be, one of the most diverse regions in the world, hosting four major religions, 800 languages, innumerable ethnicities, and radically diverging political systems and cultures. Despite its unprecedented diversity, ASEAN has brought durable stability and prosperity to 655 million people in Southeast Asia. In an era of growing cultural pessimism, ASEAN is a miraculous counterexample of coexistence.

Cambodia will host the 13th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) on Nov 16-17in Phnom Penh under the theme “Strengthening Multilateralism for Shared Growth”. The summit will be the country’s biggest, historic international event, with the participation of government leaders from 51 countries and two regional organizations (Asean and the EU).

Firms need to prepare plans to ensure uninterrupted business activities during the outbreak, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Thursday in a meeting with representatives of private economic groups in tourism, services, aviation, food and industry.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 or coronavirus) was first detected in December 2019 by health authorities in Wuhan City in the People’s Republic of China. Since that time, more than 118,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide, and the virus has spread to more than 114 countries across 6 continents, causing over 4,200 deaths to date, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).