The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held an inter-ministerial meeting in Hanoi on December 18 to review ASEAN cooperation, Vietnam's strides in 2024, and chart a course for 2025.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim laid stress on the significance of cooperation within ASEAN while addressing at the Seoul National University on November 26.

The national coming of age festival will be a highlight in the activities to be held by the National Committee on Youth of Vietnam and competent ministries and sectors in 2024, heard a conference held in Hanoi on January 8.

Vietnam always makes positive contributions to the ASEAN cooperation, according to an expert.

The National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control on October 13 held a ceremony to celebrate International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction and ASEAN Day for Disaster Management (ADDM).

Solidarity is the foundation of ASEAN cooperation and the key to its success, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on November 12.

The Vietnamese Permanent Mission to ASEAN has completed all preparations for the ASEAN Chairmanship Year 2020, a diplomat has said.

The 9th ASEAN Maritime Forum (AMF-9) opened in the central city of Da Nang on December 5, seeing the participation of more than 50 delegates from the 10 ASEAN countries and the ASEAN Secretariat.

The plenary session of the 35th ASEAN Summit officially opened in Thailand in the evening of November 2.

The fifth meeting of the Mekong Extension Learning Alliance (MELA) opened in Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang on September 11, within the framework of ASEAN cooperation in agricultural training and extension.

Senior agriculture and forestry officials of ASEAN and China, Japan and the Republic of Korea gathered at a meeting in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 7 to discuss the bloc and its partners’ cooperation in the fields.

ASEAN cooperation in the East Sea was the topic of the fifth Ocean Dialogue that took place in Hanoi on June 18.

The ASEAN Music Festival 2019 will take place in Hai Phong city from May 25 to 31, aiming to enhance cultural cooperation among regional nations.

The 11th Coordinating Conference for the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC) took place at the ASEAN Secretariat’s headquarters in Jakarta on March 5 to review the implementation of the APSC Blueprint 2025.

ASEAN should intensify its disaster management efforts after the region was recently hit by several deadly storms, emphasised ASEAN’s new Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has outlined his country’s key priorities when it chairs the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2018.

The Albert del Rosario Institute on Strategic and International Studies (ADRI) held a conference themed “ASEAN Leadership amid a New World Order” at Shangri-La Hotel in Manila on November 8.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he will direct authorised agencies to work with Vietnam on the signing of an agreement on fishery cooperation while meeting Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh on July 13.

Vietnam’s participation in ASEAN cooperation in the environment has clearly demonstrated the country’s proactive, active and responsible integration into the world.

Representatives from over 20 ministries and sectors gathered at a meeting in Hanoi on December 14 to review the ASEAN cooperation in 2016 and orientations for the time to come.