The Airborne Infection Defense Platform (AIDP) was officially launched on Thursday to strengthen ASEAN countries’ tuberculosis (TB) response, and health care system and pandemic preparedness to address the growing issue of airborne respiratory infections.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, trade revenue between Viet Nam and other ASEAN countries has still been on the rise, but much still needs to be done to fully capitalise on these neighbouring markets.
Digital for development is more critical than digital development. It is high time for ASEAN countries to cooperate to address the digital gap within a country and between countries to ensure an inclusive Digital ASEAN by 2040.
Viet Nam has become a big importer for goods from ASEAN countries seven
months after joining in ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), Deputy Prime
Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has said.
Trade with ASEAN countries remains modest this year, said an expert,
with Viet Nam''s exports to the ASEAN market reaching about US$35
billion, while imports were about $40 billion.