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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…

EU P2P: 11th Summer University on Strategic Trade Control

The 11th Summer University on Strategic Trade Control (the Course) is part of the European Union's Export Control Programme for dual-use goods (EU P2P). The Course aims to provide basic and in-depth academic knowledge…

CRISPR-Cas9 and the Risk of Bioweapon Proliferation

CRISPR-Cas9 is an advanced gene-editing technology developed in 2012 by scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier. It is a natural defense system found in bacteria and archaea, helping them resist viral…

We dont need more virus

For decades, gain-of-function (GoF) research was a quiet, technical term within virology referring to the modification of organisms to better understand biological processes. In recent years, however, the phrase has…

FATF Report highlights major gaps in global response to Proliferation Financing and Sanctions Evasion

Paris, 20 June 2025 – A new FATF report, Complex Proliferation Financing and Sanctions Evasion Schemes, published today, reveals that significant vulnerabilities remain across the global financial system in countering…

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

From 9 to 11 July 2025 in Hanoi, the Chemical Corps – Standing Office of Vietnam's National Focal Point for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (Standing Office 81), in cooperation with the…

SPIRI: WORLD NUCLEAR FORCES

At the start of 2025, nine states - the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Israel - together possessed approximately 12…

International Mechanisms for Biological Weapons Control

In the current context of global security facing increasingly non-traditional challenges, from international terrorism to threats posed by advanced biotechnology, preventing the proliferation of biological weapons has…