The ASEAN Plus Three countries - 10 ASEAN member states, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea - shared their experience in digital transformation in the civil service sector at an online international workshop held by the Vietnamese Ministry of Home Affairs on October 11.
Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu co-chaired the 8th Vietnam-Japan strategic partnership dialogue and held talks with his Japanese counterpart Funakoshi Takehiro as part of his working visit to Japan from December 11-13.
Led by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, the Vietnamese delegation made significant contributions to all activities, conveying important messages about ASEAN and its future, affirming Vietnam's proactive, responsible, sincere, and friendly image, and promoting relations between ASEAN and its partners to serve the common goal of peace, security, stability, and sustainable development in the region and the world.
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) has forecast the ASEAN+3 region will grow to 4.2% in 2024 and 4.4% in 2025, in its latest quarterly update.
The 2024 ASEAN+ Age-group Chess Championship kicked off on August 22 in Vientiane with 180 players from eight countries. Vietnam has the largest delegation, with 124 participants.
Vietnamese Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Permanent Secretary of State at the Cambodian Defence Ministry General Chay Saing Yun have compared notes on defence cooperation orientations between the two countries while co-chairing a dialogue in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The 27th ASEAN Directors-General of Immigration Departments and Heads of Consular Affairs Divisions of Ministries of Foreign Affairs Meeting (DGICM 27) and its related meetings will be held in Nha Trang city, the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, from August 12-16, heard a press conference on August 6.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Construction Bui Xuan Dung is attending the ASEAN – China Ministerial Roundtable on Construction and Housing (ACMROCH) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from July 3 to 5.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has suggested the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) coordinate with Vietnam to implement their cooperation focuses.
The Republic of Korea (RoK), China and Japan agreed on May 3 to reinforce the regional financial safety net, along with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), by launching a new financing facility programme meant to extend greater support in case of a financial crisis.
The sustainable bond market of member economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea expanded 29.3% last year, outpacing the 21% growth of the global and euro-area sustainable bond markets, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
A delegation of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) arrived in Vietnam to assess economic and financial risks and support the enhancement of macro-economic research and monitoring capacity.
Vietnam attended consultations between ASEAN economic ministers and their counterparts from Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea and Japan, on August 22 in the framework of the 55th ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (AEM) in Indonesia.
The ASEAN+3 Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meeting (AFCDM+3) took place in Indonesia from March 29-30 to discuss the regional macroeconomic situation and the progress of implementing financial cooperation initiatives. Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the State Bank of Vietnam attended the event.
Vietnam’s GDP growth in 2023 has been adjusted upward to 6.8% in the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO)’s January Update, up from 6.5% in its October report.
PM Chinh joined leaders of other ASEAN countries and partners at the 25th ASEAN+3 (China, the Republic of Korea, Japan) Summit and other summits with India and Australia in Phnom Penh on November 12.
Designing an appropriate salary and bonus system to attract talents to the state apparatus was a highlight of the sixth ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and the Republic of Korea) senior officials’ meeting (SOM) that was held in Hanoi on August 3 as part of the 21st ASEAN Cooperation on Civil Service Matters (ACCSM 21).
Ambassador Vu Ho represented Vietnam at the ASEAN+3 Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM) 2022 hosted by Cambodia via video teleconference on June 8, which gathered senior officials from ten ASEAN member states and their three partners – China, Japan and the Republic of Korea.
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) on April 12 published its annual ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook (AREO) 2022 which forecasts the region’s growth at 4.7 percent this year and 4.6 percent in 2023, with growth for ASEAN at 5.1 and 5.2 percent, respectively.
The ASEAN+3 region will remain resilient in 2022 in face of new challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economy, according to the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO).
