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"With a young and dynamic population, developing local market, growing middle class, and very open economy, Vietnam offers a lot of attractive investment opportunities," Nirukt Sapru, CEO Vietnam, ASEAN Cluster Markets, Standard Chartered Bank said. "COVID-19 will take a while but cannot prevent us from finding opportunities and making plans to maintain and expand our operations in Vietnam." … [Read more...] about Standard Chartered online forum highlights Vietnam as rising star in FDI

During the event, participants exchanged experiences in promoting the participation of young parliamentarians to building the ASEAN Community in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on all spheres of socio-economic life in ASEAN member countries. … [Read more...] about Role of young parliamentarians highlighted within AIPA 41’s framework

Phóng voiced her expectation that the meeting of young parliamentarians of AIPA would be organised on an annual basis within the framework of AIPA General Assembly, saying that the annual meeting would create a forum for young parliaments of AIPA to share experience in doing parliamentary works, contributing to building and developing the ASEAN Community. … [Read more...] about Role of young parliamentarians highlighted at AIPA-41

In the 2019 fiscal year, assistance of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Vietnam totalled approximately 139 million USD in programme areas focused on economic governance, higher education, global health security, the welfare of persons with disabilities and the environment. … [Read more...] about US highlights 25-year partnership with Vietnam

Hanoi (VNA) – Philippine House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano has stressed that unity and neighbourly cooperation are the flagship and main objectives of AIPA and ASEAN. He made the remarks while addressing the first plenary session of the ongoing 41st General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-41), which, he said, is among the most memorable of General Assemblies since the birth of AIPA in Manila on September 2, 1977. AIPA 41 is historic not only for the reason of its virtual setting, but because it is held amidst extraordinarily challenging circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, he said. He congratulated the National Assembly of Vietnam and its AIPA National Secretariat for surmounting the current difficulties caused by the pandemic to conduct the meeting. Alan Peter said this is an opportunity for AIPA parliaments to share experiences, learnings, difficulties, innovative measures and best practices, making them better equipped in battling … [Read more...] about Philippine House Speaker highlights AIPA-ASEAN unity