In 2016, Vietnam was the 8th destination but in 2019 the country ranked 4th out of 40 destinations for short-term courses and internships for Australian students in the Indo-Pacific, including regions in Asia, following China, India and Indonesia.

This shortage of talent is a huge challenge for the country to realize its goal of becoming a center of artificial intelligence (AI) development in the region and the world.

A group of three big Australian warships, amphibious assault ship HMAS Canberra, missile frigate HMAS Anzac and tanker HMAS Sirius, docked at Cam Ranh Bay in Khanh Hoa province for a series of bilateral cooperation activities from September 20-23.

Australia and the US underlined the importance of countries’ ability to exercise their maritime rights and freedoms in the East Sea, consistent with the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),

The Australian Government has announced a grant of nearly 1.4 million AUD (US$1 million) for four Vietnamese high-tech application projects in the field of digital transformation, through the Aus4Innovation Programme.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on September 6 called on Austrian businesses to increase investment and trade cooperation with their Vietnamese counterparts to fully tap into the two sides’ potential and strength.

Australia and France ministers have voiced serious concerns about the situation in the East Sea and called for all disputes to be resolved in a peaceful manner in accordance with international law,

A bilingual book about Vietnamese costumes in the 15th century has been included in the library of the National Australian University. 

The Ministry of Science and Technology is calling for all individuals and organizations working in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Vietnam to join the Vietnam-Australia Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Network.

The match between Vietnam and Australia in the final round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers at the My Dinh National Stadium on September 7 will be played without fans in attendance as planned before.

An Australia-funded project has chosen nine leading agritech scale-ups from overseas to enter the Vietnamese market with an aim of solving the country’s most pressing agrifood challenges, according to the Australian Embassy in Hanoi.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Nguyen Tat Thanh on July 22 chaired a meeting of the ASEAN Committee in Canberra (ACC) to sketch out the committee’s operation plan in the rest of the year.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a meeting for visiting Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Dan Tehan in Hanoi on July 13.

Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne has affirmed Australia’s position which is guided by principled support for international law and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Twenty-two young people have been chosen to take part in the 2021 Australia - Vietnam Young Leadership Dialogue (AVLD), slated for early September, with each country having 11 delegates.

NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue held phone talks with the Speaker of Australia’s House of Representatives Tony Smith on June 7 to boost the strategic partnership between the two countries and the relationship between the two parliaments in particular.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison expressed his wish to elevate the Vietnam-Australia strategic partnership to a comprehensive strategic partnership during an online talk with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh on May 25. ​

The PAN Group has been authorised to register ownership rights for the ST24 and ST25 rice varieties in foreign markets and protect related trademarks.

Australia has supported Vietnam’s third rotation for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), airlifting Vietnamese defence members and equipment back to the home country, a move to consolidate the two countries’ bilateral ties.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Australia has said it has taken measures to protect Vietnamese rice trademarks after an Australian firm registered for trademark protection of rice varieties ST24 and ST25.