Vietnam assembly ends, China oil and gas earnings, BOJ deputy speech

Delegates attend Vietnam's National Assembly in Hanoi earlier this year. An extraordinary session that began Aug. 3 is set to wrap up on Monday. © APAugust 23, 2026 15:26 JSTWelcome to Your Week in Asia.Vietnam will wrap up an extraordinary session of its National Assembly that began on Aug. 3 and has unfolded over two phases. Legislative topics have run from money laundering and agriculture to halting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while the session is set to end with a strong focus on energy.Chinese oil and gas companies will report earnings for a period when China's oil imports collapsed amid the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, helping to contain the jump in global oil prices. The country's crude oil throughput -- the amount refined into usable fuels -- edged up in July fro