The exports of many of Vietnam’s key commodities, such as telephones and components, textiles, footwear, and agricultural and fishery products, have been greatly boosted thanks to the country’s efficient exploitation of major markets in APEC economies.
With the dust barely settled after the International Monetary Fund and World Bank raised hopes at their annual meetings in Washington, DC that a long-awaited growth revival is materialising, the global economy received more welcome news from the other side of the world affirming a turnaround.
Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich and a Vietnamese delegation attended the 11th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) that opened in Manila, the capital of Philippines on October 23.
Sen. Loren Legarda is confident that relations between the Philippines and the European Union (EU) will remain strong despite the latest tirades of President Duterte against its members.
Vietnam should put a special focus on traditional rice importers in Asia to ensure the country’s rice trade stability in the long run, said Huynh Minh Hue, secretary general of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA), at a conference in HCMC on October 17 on the rice export strategy for 2017-2020 period.
Finance officials from the 21 APEC economies gathered in the central province of Quang Nam’s Hoi An ancient city to draft the Joint Ministerial Statement, on October 19.
Progress is being made on a revised Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
Singapore has a deep and multi-faceted relationship with the United States, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hopes to develop it further when he visits Washington next week, he said in an interview with US news channel CNBC.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
