Electric vehicles (EVs) made up nearly 60% of new car registrations in the first quarter of 2026, overtaking combustion engine and hybrid models for the first time, and a jump from 45% in 2025 and 3.8% in 2021.

One of the highlights of the Ninh Binh Tourism Week 2026 is the Tam Coc Golden Season Festival at the Tam Coc – Bich Dong tourist site, where visitors can enjoy the vibrant rice harvest landscape alongside traditional cultural activities such as agricultural offerings processions, folk singing and traditional art performances.

Indonesia’s key strategy in the coming period will focus on leveraging its natural resource advantages, promoting downstream processing industries and restructuring the export system to prevent the outflow of national wealth abroad, President Prabowo stressed.

The JSCCIB stated that easing legal barriers and renewing work permits for migrant workers from neighbouring countries are crucial to maintaining competitiveness, economic growth and exports.

Starting in 2027, with support from international experts, Singapore will conduct a formal assessment aimed at informing any future decision on advanced nuclear technologies. The review will form Phase 1 of the Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review (INIR) mission.

Vietnam must develop its materials industry in a green, sustainable and self-reliant direction with international competitiveness, in line with global commitments, while ensuring the highest national interests, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam said at a working session in Hanoi on May 21.

Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have discussed measures to advance the development of the ASEAN Single Window (ASW) information exchange project aimed at modernising cross-border trade procedures.

Pigs, wild boars and their related products from the Philippines that are intercepted by border inspection and other authorities as illegal entries shall be destroyed under customs supervision without exception.