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The ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises recently launched ASEAN Access, a one-stop business information gateway for international-oriented firms.

The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic provides important impetus for structural reform through inclusive sustainable development in Indonesia, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto has said.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy has called on all parties to cease military hostilities and spare no effort to work with the Special Envoy, regional partners and the international community.

Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, voiced concerns over the ongoing violation of the Disengagement of Forces Agreement in the Golan Heights on June 14.

The Canada-ASEAN Business Council has urged Canada to secure its economic interests with Vietnam as a key tenet of Canada’s evolving Indo-Pacific strategy, according to an article on Business in Vancouver weekly newspaper.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a loan of 400 million USD to support reforms that will help the Government of Indonesia increase the depth, improve the efficiency.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Colonel Pham Manh Thang, Deputy Director of the Defence Ministry’s Foreign Relations Department, attended a conference of the ASEAN Defence Senior Officials’ Meeting Plus Working Group.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Vietnam's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on June 9 called on the Sudanese government to strengthen its capacity to protect civilians.

The World Bank has lowered its forecast on the Philippines' gross domestic product growth for 2021 to 4.7 percent from 5.5 percent in March, according to an updated report released by the bank on June 8.

Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, deputy head of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, highlighted strengthening cooperation and dialogue in solving challenges from armed groups and terrorists.

The ASEAN Secretariat has issued a statement on outcomes of a working visit to Myanmar of Chairman of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.

Russia is going to discuss the cooperation in manufacturing the COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik-V in Vietnam.