(VOVworld) - The economic cost of disasters across the world dropped in 2015 to around USD 85 billion from USD 113 million last year, reinsurance firm Swiss Re said on Saturday
(VOVworld) – Vietnamese and Argentinian parliamentarians have agreed to further tighten links between the two countries’ legislative bodies in the coming time
(VOVworld) – Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai met with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister I. Shuvalov in Hanoi on Wednesday where the two agreed to closer economic and trade ties...
(VOV) - The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held an award ceremony on Tuesday to honor winners of a competition of photos, reportage, and documentary films on peoples in the...
(VOVworld) – The Defence Ministry’s steering board for the border demarcation and marker planting met on Monday to review the project to increase and upgrade border markers along its border...
(VOVworld) - Vietnam’s tra fish export to China and Hong Kong (China) recorded a strong growth in the first ten months of this year, hitting 122 million USD, representing a...
(VOVworld) - Myanmar's Union Election Commission (UEC) announced 106 parliament representatives-elect on Tuesday on the first-day of election results, including 54 to the House of Representatives and 52...
(VOVworld) - Myanmar President U Thein Sein has promised to accept results of the general election to be held on Sunday. U Thein Sein made the remarks in a nationwide speech...
(VOVworld) – Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, won a parliamentary majority in Sunday’s elections, returning the country to single-party rule
(VOVworld) - Vietnam has been elected to the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s Executive Committee at its recent 133rd assembly
(VOVworld) - Vietnam has proposed several solutions to migration, which has become a global issue, at the 133rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-133) currently taking place in Geneva,...
(VOVworld) - At least 310 people were killed, and 450 injured, in a stampede near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday morning. This has been the worst disaster in the history of the Haji pilgrimage in...
(VOVworld) – President Truong Tan Sang said that the Party and State will always remember and acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices made by war martyrs and veterans during Vietnam’s resistance...
(VOVworld) – ‘Rau nhip’, a wild vegetable which is highly nutritious and easy to grow, grows well even in home gardens. During the war ‘rau nhip’ was part of the daily diet of soldiers...
(VOVworld) - The World Bank (WB)’s Board of Directors have approved two credit packages worth a combined 315 million USD to assist Vietnam’s agricultural restructuring and general education reform,...
(VOVworld) – The Republic of Korea reported two more deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndromes (MERS), and one new confirmed case on Friday, bringing the death toll to 31 and the...
(VOVworld) - NATO has decided to strengthen the alliance’s collective defence, including by increasing the strength and capability of the NATO Response Force. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a press briefing...
(VOVworld)- Ho Chi Minh City is famous for its impressive architecture which includes some beautiful pagodas that exemplify the Oriental architectural style. Over the centuries, these pagodas have been popular...
(VOVworld) - The World Bank on Wednesday cut its global growth outlook for the year and urged developing economies to "fasten their seat belts" as they adjust to lower commodity prices and...
(VOVworld) – The European Union (EU) announced it would invest 118 million euros (133 million U.S. dollars) of new funding for Latin America and the Caribbean to increase EU business cooperation...