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China is actively supporting Indonesia in building a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing hub, Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Xiao Qian told a webinar on November 18.

Malaysian Senior Minister of Defence Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said on November 16 that a total of seven components need to be met before the country can enter the endemic phase, or reopen safely towards living with COVID-19.

A diplomat of Vietnam stressed the need for comprehensive solutions to root causes of conflicts while speaking at the UN Security Council’s open debate on November 16.

Malaysian authorities have accepted Thailand’s proposal to reopen Narathiwat’s Tak Bai and Buke Ta border checkpoints, which had been closed to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided to lift all quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated travellers – both Cambodians and foreign nationals – effective from November 15.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's longtime aide-turned-senator Christopher Go on November 13 turned to run for president in the 2022 elections.

Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Nghia highlighted the importance of ASEAN military-defence cooperation as regional challenges.

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen has highlighted the importance of promoting the integration of the ASEAN Community in the new normal.

With the role of the co-chair of the ADMM-Plus Experts' Working Group on Military Medicine with Brunei, Australia and ASEAN will have many practical activities to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic together.

Vietnam has shown concern about Israel's continuous expansion of resettlement areas in the West Bank affirming that the activity is against international law and weaken the prospect of the two-state solution.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, has called on concerned parties to fully observe the international humanitarian law to prevent hunger in Ethiopia.

Germany’s Junge Welt newspaper ran an article on November 6 that spotlighted the signing of agreements worth millions of EURs between Vietnam and France during Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to France.