Activities

Training and Experience-Sharing Program in Indonesia on Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, and Counter-Proliferation Financing

From January 19 to 23, 2026, the Vietnamese delegation, comprising officials from the State Bank of Vietnam, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Supreme People’s Procuracy…

Training Course on Developing Exercises to Counter Terrorism involving Weapons of Mass Destruction

From January 20–22, 2026, within the framework of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the United States and the Philippines jointly organized a training course on developing exercises to respond to the threat of terrorism…

Open registries - a vulnerability exploited to evade targeted financial sanctions

Vessels engaged in evading maritime sanctions (including targeted financial sanctions) are predominantly registered with open registries: registries that impose few or no nationality requirements on vessel owners and…

Inspection of anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and counter-proliferation financing activities

From 5 to 16 December 2025, an interagency inspection team led by the State Bank of Vietnam inspected the anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and counter-proliferation financing activities of Kien Long…

Thirtieth Session of the Conference of the States Parties of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

The Thirtieth Session of the Conference of the States Parties (CSP-30) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) took place from 24 to 28 November 2025 in The Hague, the Netherlands. This is the…

Tabletop workshop on crisis communication: regional response to chemical and biological incidents

From 4 to 7 November 2025, a tabletop workshop on crisis communication: regional response to chemical and biological incidents, organised by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute…

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incident response exercise

On 18 October, at the 88th Chemical Defence Brigade, the Chemical Corps – the Standing Office of Vietnam’s National Focal Point for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (Standing Office 81) – in…

Vietnamese delegation attends the 19th International Atomic Forum in the Russian Federation

From 23 to 26 September, a working delegation of the Ministry of National Defence comprising officers of the Chemical Corps and the Department of Military Science attended the 19th International Atomic Forum on the…

Workshop on responding to disasters involving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents

Following the series of workshops on responding to disasters involving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents held in Vietnam (July 2025) and the Philippines (August 2025), a workshop on responding…

Meeting with the FATF Joint Group on the fifth progress report

On 3–4 September 2025 in Macao, China, the FATF Joint Group (JG) and the Vietnamese delegation held a face-to-face meeting on the fifth progress report (PR5) addressing issues of anti-money laundering, countering the…

Vietnamese delegation attends the APG 2025 Annual Meeting in Tokyo, Japan

In fulfilment of Vietnam’s responsibilities as a member of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), from 25 to 29 August 2025 a Vietnamese inter-agency delegation comprising representatives of the State Bank of…

Workshop on responding to disasters involving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents in the Philippines

From 5 to 7 August 2025, a workshop on CBRN disaster response was held in Manila, the Philippines, organised by the Export Control and Related Border Security Programme of the US Department of State (EXBS Programme) in…