Close to 30 years has passed since Vietnam and the U.S. normalized ties, their two-way trade rose over 300-fold to US$138 billion in 2022 from $450 million in 1995.

NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, Speaker of the Senate and Vice President of Uruguay Beatriz Argimon, and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Uruguay Sebastian Andujar on April 27 signed a cooperation agreement between the two parliaments.

Major foreign corporations are concerned that the proposed global minimum tax will make investing in Vietnam less profitable, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Container shipping in Vietnam and Cambodia had the fastest port turnaround times in ASEAN in June 2022 with both countries scoring an average of 0.9 days, according to a World Bank (WB) report.

Finance ministers and central banks’ governors of ASEAN Member States and China, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan (ASEAN+3) have agreed to intensify regional financial cooperation.

Asia's economic growth could outpace developed countries' by 5% by end-2023 driven by China's easing of Covid-19 curbs, strong domestic demand and interest rates staying in less-restrictive territory, said Morgan Stanley economists.

The Federal Reserve moved its management of the post-pandemic economic recovery into a new phase with what may be the last in a historic series of interest rate hikes and heightened attention to credit and other economic risks.

India has called for finding a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding for food security in the ministerial-level meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in February 2024, on official said.

The Chips and Science Act, signed into law by President Biden in 2022, sets aside US$53 billion to fund domestic chip production and research China representative says industry subsidies allow US to ‘interfere with the allocation of market resources’ and show ‘double standards’

The Australian Government welcomes the announcement that Royal Assent has been given to legislation to bring the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement into effect in the UK.