Vietnam Policy & Governance: PM Le Minh Hung urged ministries to stay ahead by fixing legal bottlenecks and overlaps as Vietnam drafts key laws on land, housing, real estate business, investment and grassroots democracy. Party Oversight: General Secretary To Lam approved a draft report on the NA Party Committee’s third inspection round, focusing on personnel standards, competency gaps and building a pipeline of young, female and ethnic-minority officials. EV & Mobility Expansion: Vingroup’s Green SM launched an e-scooter service in Jakarta, backed by charging and battery-swap infrastructure, as it scales in Indonesia. EV Financing: VinFast Vietnam secured a $200m financing facility from Italy’s SACE to support corporate plans plus R&D. Vietnam–China Cooperation: Vietnamese and Chinese officials agreed to deepen comprehensive cooperation, while defence leaders met at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum to boost trust and dialogue. AI & Training: CUHK and Votee AI built an AI-driven virtual elderly client to train social workers in ACT therapy, aiming to ease real-world training constraints. Climate Tech & Food Systems: Google backed a Brazil project combining methane cuts in rice farming with large-scale carbon removal via enhanced rock-weathering. Health Research: A study reports how maternal age affects fetal copy number variant detection using ultrasound soft markers, using chromosomal microarray analysis. Cybersecurity & Scams: A LinkedIn romance scam case shows how attackers used a real person’s identity to build trust and extract nearly $1m.