The 12th Mekong-Japan Summit was held online on November 13, under the chair of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Japanese counterpart Suga Yoshihide.

The ASEAN Women CEO Summit was held in Hanoi on November 9 with the theme "Making changes for a stronger and more responsive women entrepreneur community".

Cambodia exported 536,305 tonnes of milled rice in the first 10 months of this year, a 17 percent increase compared to the same period last year, despite serious floods over the past month.

Vietnam moved up one spot to rank 12th out of 26 countries and territories in the 2020 Asia Power Index conducted by the Lowy Institute, an independent think-tank in Australia.

Japanese news agency Kyodo ran articles highlighting Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide's official visit to Vietnam, including his talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 19, during which the two are expected to discuss numerous issues, particularly economic cooperation.

A total of 121 teams from 31 Vietnamese colleges and universities and 37 teams from those in six other ASEAN member states will kick off the starting round of the 2020 ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security on October 17.

The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) High-level Dialogue on Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment amid the COVID-19 Pandemic opened on October 12 in the form of video conference, bringing together nearly 130 delegates from 41 ASEM member countries and seven international and regional organisations.

Indonesia and the Philippines each logged more than 3,000 COVID-19 infections on September 28.

A new report by the World Bank Group pointed out that between 2010 and 2020, the Human Capital Index for Vietnam increased from 0.66 to 0.69.

The ASEAN ministers' meeting for human resources development in a changing world of work, is underway in the form of video conference from September 15-16, with the goal to promote ASEAN cooperation in HRD in line with requirements of employers and employees, and the development of technology.

US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun and foreign ministers stressed the importance of law-based international order in the settlement of disputes and rising militarisation in the East Sea at the virtual 27th ASEAN Regional Forum.

Vietnam, as Chair of ASEAN in 2020, is exerting every effort to boost the building of a cohesive and responsive ASEAN Community so that the bloc can deal with all possible challenges and difficulties, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has said.