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ASEAN member countries have been paying ever greater attention to environmental cooperation, a meeting held by the Vietnam Environment Administration.

The Japanese government will set up a fund worth 250 billion JPY to support Japanese companies' "smart-city" projects and to help further decarbonisation measures in Vietnam.

The Indonesian Government has decided to ban crowds congregating to celebrate Christmas 2020 and New Year 2021 in public places to prevent a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.

Vietnam has emphasised countries’ top responsibility in the prosecution of severe international crimes at a United Nations Security Council briefing on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.

Thailand’s National Energy Policy Council plans to increase the number of new waste-to-energy projects next year to ease worries about the growing volume of garbage.

Thailand's event marketing business is expected to lose 5.6 billion baht worth of revenue in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to the total amount of 14 billion baht per year.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Mission to the UN and chairman of the United Nations Security Council’s Informal Working Group on International Tribunals.

Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Dato Lim Jock Hoi has commended Vietnam’s exemplary role as the Chair of ASEAN in a year full of challenges.

The plenary and closing session of the 30th meeting of state parties to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea took place at the UN headquarters in New York on December 9 with the participation of nearly 120 member states.

The 14th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM-14) took place via videoconference on December 9 under the chair of the Vietnamese Minister of National Defence, Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich.

The local government of Jakarta has decided to prolong the transitional period of the large-scale social restrictions by another two weeks from December 7-21.

The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has injected new momentum into the economic and trade cooperation between ASEAN and China.