(VOVWORLD) - Preparatory meetings for the ASEAN-36 Summit began in Vietnam on Monday with the COVID-19 pandemic still disrupting life around the world. Vietnam, as this year’s ASEAN Chair, is doing its best to ensure that the summit is a success despite the difficult circumstances.

(VOVWORLD) - The mid-year session, which concluded on Friday, was special in the history of the National Assembly. Major decisions were made, opening doors to expanding trade with the European Union and laying a foundation for National Assembly reform.

(VOVWORLD) - Freedom of speech and freedom of press are fundamental human rights that Vietnam is committed under the general principles of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. But this is a sensitive issue that hostile, reactionary forces always abuse to sabotage the Party, State, and the socialist regime in Vietnam. They always fail thanks to the promotion of freedom of speech and the press in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) -South Korea’s military sources on Wednesday said North Korea has blown up a joint liaison office near the border town of Kaesong, sparking international concern about an unexpected scenario on the Korean peninsula which is still technically at war.

(VOVWORLD) - In the three weeks since new racial discrimination protests were triggered by the killing of an unarmed black man by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the protests have continued to spread across the US.

(VOVWORLD) - In the past two days, National Assembly deputies have been discussing ways to restore Vietnam’s economy in the post-COVID-19 period. Vietnam’s successful containment of the pandemic should allow it to attract investment and promote its new digital economy In the past two days, National Assembly deputies have been discussing ways to restore Vietnam’s economy in the post-COVID-19 period. Vietnam’s successful containment of the pandemic should allow it to attract investment and promote its new digital economy

(VOVWORLD) - Relations between the two Koreas have been frozen since North Korea cut off all communications with South Korea, including a line at an inter-Korean liaison office, military lines, and a hotline between South Korea's Presidential Office and North Korea's Workers' Party. The inter-Korean ties are once again at risk.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s achievements in child care and protection in the 30 years since it signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child have been praised internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnamese children have received special attention and care.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution on extending the exemption of agricultural land use from taxes by 2025. The resolution institutionalizes Party and State guidelines on issues relating to agriculture, farmers, and rural areas and encourages individuals and organizations to invest in agriculture to improve the global competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural products.

(VOVWORLD) - The Middle East is heating up with tensions over Israel’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank. A new spike in violence is likely if the annexation plan is carried out.