(VOVworld) – 85 Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in downtown Tokyo during a four-day autumn festival. Like many previous visits, it has angered China and South Korea.
(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc presented the government report on this year’s socio-economy and plans for next year at the opening of the National Assembly meeting on Thursday. He said despite several difficulties, Vietnam has achieved important results in most sectors. It has illustrated profound effort of the Party and people. Vietnam will do its best to record more impressive economic achievements in 2017.
(VOVworld)- The 14th National Assembly will convene its 2nd session in Hanoi on October 20. Several meetings between National Assembly deputies and voters have been held prior to the event.
(VOVworld) – Torrential rains and heavy floods in the central region has claimed many lives over the past week. Thousands of houses and public works such as clinics, schools, roads, and irrigation facilities have been damaged. People in inundated areas, particularly in Quang Binh and Ha Tinh province, are suffering. But they are not alone. People nationwide have turned their hearts and minds to helping them recover from the latest natural disaster.
(VOVword) – Tense relations between Russia and the US continue unabated over Syria, Eastern Europe, and cyber warfare.
(VOVworld) – The Ho Chi Minh Youth Union and the Vietnam Students’ Association have launched a contest on startup ideas as part a national startup campaign. Held for the first time, the competition is aimed at nurturing innovation, reform, and a start-up spirit among Vietnamese youngsters.
(VOVworld) – The public appreciates the 4th session of the 12th Party Central Committee (PCC) for its candid assessment of degradation in political ideology, morality, and lifestyle, as well as “self-evolution”, and “self-transformation” within the Party. People nationwide expect that in order to strengthen the Party, every Party member should promote the sense of self-discipline in implementing the resolution on Party building.
(VOVworld) - A firebomb burned through the Republican Party headquarters in North Carolina's Orange County, the US, on Sunday. No casualties were reported in the incident, which occurred less than a month before the presidential election. But it raised concerns over violence against America’s democracy.
(VOVworld) – 3 days after the parliament of the French Community of Belgium rejected the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada, thousands of Europeans took to the street to protest the deal. The deal, which is a result of 7 years negotiations, is in jeopardy.
(VOVworld)- The 8th Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam Summit (CLMV-8), the 7th Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy Summit (ACMECS-7) and the World Economic Forum on Mekong (WEF-Mekong)
