Defence officials from members of the ASEAN Regional Forum, Asia’s largest security grouping led by ASEAN, met in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, on May 2nd to discuss regional security issues.
The event, which is an annual meeting of the ARF Defence Officials'
Dialogue, was co-hosted by the RoK and Thailand.
The officials
discussed measures to strengthen maritime security capabilities in a
coordinated manner and to build trust among them.
They also shared
experience on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and explored ways to
cooperate in those fields.
The ARF, formed in
1994, gathers 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN), the bloc’s 10 dialogue partners - the EU, Australia, Canada, China,
India, Japan, New Zealand, the RoK, Russia and the US - along with Papua New
Guinea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Pakistan, Timor
Leste, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka./.
The danger from the COVID-19 pandemic is still latent, threatening people’s health and lives in the context that the immunity provided from the COVID-19 vaccine has decreased. Many other dangerous diseases are also likely to break out when the global vaccination rate slows down, due to inequality in access to health services, vaccine hesitancy, and consequences of economic recession.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is witnessing a rise in the sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia, according to Maybank Investment Bank Research (Maybank IB Research).
The respect paying ceremony for Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong continued on the morning of July 26 at the National Funeral Hall in Hanoi, with high-level delegations from foreign countries and international organisations paying their last respects and expressing deep condolences.
A wave of condolences have poured in from world leaders, international organisations, rulling parties, Communist parties and partner parties following the death of Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines has expressed her deepest sympathy over the passing of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and affirmed that he is a revered leader both in Vietnam and across the world.
Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), on June 5 had a meeting with UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Julie Bishop during her working visit to New York.
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