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The Lao Foreign Ministry has recently issued the guideline No.1342 on entry-exit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Jakarta Post newspaper of Indonesia has published an article reviewing 30 years of amity between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

The Embassy of Belgium in Vietnam held a ceremony to open a centre for receiving visa applications to European countries, including Belgium, Germany and Italy, in the central city of Da Nang on March 22.

Vietnam is willing to cooperate with the Czech Republic to address difficulties in granting long-term visas for Vietnamese nationals for the purposes of employment or business in the European country, said spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry Le Thi Thu Hang.

The Czech Republic has suspended the acceptance of work visa applications by Vietnamese nationals, said Czech Minister of the Interior Jan Hamacek.

Vietnam needs to simplify its visa applications and procedures for foreign companies to enter the country so the logistics industry can attract more foreign business partners, representatives of logistics companies have said.

Up to 96,478 foreigners requested e-visas on Vietnam’s immigration portal in the Feb-December period of 2017, according to the Administration of Immigration under the Ministry of Public Security.

Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) has started accepting applications for Smart Visa, aiming to attract experts and high level investors from around the world to the country.

The Chinese Embassy announced that the embassy will open a booth dedicated exclusively to processing visa applications from Vietnamese football fans who want to travel to China for the final match of the AFC U23 Championship.

The number of e-visa issues for foreigners entering Vietnam has seen dramatic growth month on month, said Major General Le Xuan Vien, head of the Immigration Management Department in a press conference on December 12.

Vietnam welcomed 6.2 million foreign visitors in the first half of 2017, a year-on-year increase of 30.2%, and served 40 million domestic tourists, earning a total of 11.5 billion USD in revenue.

The number of Chinese and Indian tourists to Malaysia registering e-visa services has sharply increased in recent time, local New Straits Times newspaper reported on June 7.

The number of bookings for tours during the upcoming holidays celebrating Liberation Day and May Day, from April 29 to May 2, has risen by 15-25 percent compared to the same period last year.

A wide variety of exciting cultural, sports, fashion and cuisine events will be planned annually in HCM City to attract more tourists, city leaders have said.

The Embassies of the UK and Australia in Vietnam have launched a new visa application centre in the central city of Da Nang on December 13.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines plans to launch a direct flight from Hanoi to the Czech capital of Prague and vice versa in 2017.