The United Nations investigators said on September 16 that nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a serious risk of violence, warning that the repatriation of a million of this community remains "impossible".

Economic ministers of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) affirmed the countries’ coordination to successfully carry out CLMV action plans at their 11th meeting in Bangkok on September 5.

The Vietnamese women’s football team of coach Mai Duc Chung had a good start in the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Women’s Championship in Thailand when beating Cambodia 10-0 on August 16.

Police in the northern border province of Son La have arrested three Chinese men who killed a taxi driver to rob his car.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has affirmed Vietnam’s commitment to coordinating with Japan and other Mekong countries in implementing the Tokyo Strategy 2018 for Mekong-Japan Cooperation.

Vietnam trounced Myanmar 3-0 in their fourth Group A match at the ASEAN Football Federation U15 Championship in Thailand on August 2.

BKAV Corporation held a ceremony on July 4 to introduce its third “Made-in-Vietnam” smartphone, Bphone 3, to the Myanmar market.

A high-ranking delegation of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) of Myanmar is paying a visit to Vietnam from July 1 to 5 at the invitation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has affirmed that Vietnam supports Myanmar in its national reconciliation and development with increasingly improving stature in the region and the world.

Hundreds of Vietnamese football fans queued for hours at the main gate of the Viet Tri stadium in Phu Tho on June 3 to try and get tickets for the upcoming friendly match between Vietnam and Myanmar.

Vietnam’s dairy makers are accessing more opportunities to increase exports, but companies need to enhance their competitiveness in foreign markets and develop a concentrated production scale.

Martin Lo is the only overseas Vietnamese player to have been named in the Vietnam U23 team ahead of their friendly match against Myanmar.

Myanmar is a target market for many Vietnamese ITC conglomerates. Le Dang Dung, deputy CEO of Viettel, a military company, said among the markets Viettel has invested in, Myanmar has the biggest opportunities.

 Competition in the world garment market is forecast to be stiffer, not only with China but also with countries such as Myanmar and Cambodia as they increase competitive pressures on Vietnamese products.

The freshly-ended visits to Indonesia and Myanmar of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong marked a new milestone and created a new momentum for reinforcing political trust and boosting all-round cooperation between Vietnam and the two countries.

Vietnam and Myanmar issued a joint statement on their comprehensive cooperative partnership on the occasion of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s State visit to Myanmar from August 24 to 26.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will pay an official visit to Indonesia from August 22-24 at the invitation of Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

 Bodies and aircraft debris were found in the sea off the southern coast of Myanmar on Thursday by a navy ship searching for a military plane which went missing with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board.

 There are significant opportunities for Vietnamese firms to invest in the beauty sector in Cambodia and Myanmar as well as export beauty products to the two markets, participants at an Ho Chi Minh City conference said on May 18.

FPT and Viettel, two large telecom and IT corporations, which have reaped initial successes from making outward investments, say they will join forces with other Vietnamese businesses to exploit foreign markets.