(VOVWORLD) -The ongoing 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM-55) has affirmed the Association’s determination to uphold responsibility and maintain its solidarity and centrality in cooperation and peace building.

(VOVWORLD) - Climate change can undercut development achievements and threaten fundamental human rights. Vietnam has been working with the international community to respond to natural disasters, minimize the impact of climate change on society, and ensure people’s right to live safely and healthily. Vietnam’s activities follow a policy of ensuring human rights, especially for vulnerable groups, against the impacts of climate change.

(VOVWORLD) - Placing human rights in the center of decision making, Vietnam has strengthened the prevention and control of human trafficking. The political system at all levels considers it a key task and an uncompromising battle. But the US Department of State’s Annual Report on Human Trafficking in 189 countries and territories around the world, which was released in mid-July, did not properly recognize Vietnam's determination to combat human trafficking.

(VOVWORLD) -With the effects of climate change growing dramatically, every citizen has become more aware of the urgent need to protect the environment. In Ho Chi Minh City, more and more young people are collecting trash and doing other things to involve the community in cleaning up the environment.

(VOVWORLD) - In the context of rapid and unpredictable developments around the globe, more countries and international organizations are calling for enhanced efforts to control, limit, and completely eliminate nuclear weapons. The 10th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which opened at United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday, is expected to achieve major progress in denuclearization on a global scale.

(VOVWORLD) - Over the years Hanoi has implemented a number of plans to promote intellectual property in order to improve the value of its agricultural products and crafts.

(VOVWORLD) - Amid a record rise of inflation, devaluation of many currencies, and fierce economic competition, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted two meetings last week with leaders of ministries and sectors and domestic and foreign experts to seek solutions for effective economic management. Vietnam will focus on controlling inflation, stabilizing the macro-economy, ensuring economic balance, preventing a recession, and boosting post-pandemic recovery and development.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam needs to invest an additional 6.8% of its GDP – or approximately 368 billion USD – from now until 2040 to build a climate-resilient and low-carbon economy, according to the Vietnam Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) released by the World Bank on July 13.

(VOVWORLD) -In an effort to increase the bloc’s energy security, EU members on Tuesday agreed to voluntarily reduce their natural gas demand by 15% this winter, according to a European Council press release. But economists say achieving this goal will not be easy.

(VOVWORLD) - Ensuring human rights is among the major issues in building a Vietnamese law-governed socialist state. This view has been pursued and upheld by the Communist Party of Vietnam.