(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly on Monday ratified the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) at its ongoing ninth session in Hanoi. This is a historic milestone in Vietnam-EU relations and will create new opportunities for Vietnam’s development and integration.

(VOVWORLD) - Germany officially assumed the EU Presidency on Monday for a 6-month term. With the many challenges currently facing the EU, Germany’s presidency is predicted to be a difficult one.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly Standing Committee has introduced its national target program of socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the next decade. This is part of the National Assembly’s measures to promote the rights of Vietnamese ethnic groups.

(VOVWORLD) - Workers’ Month is a focal month for the Trade Union, who will organize activities for workers nationwide. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, some annual events have been canceled, but Trade Union branches have organized number activities to protect and care for workers under the motto “where there are workers, there are trade unions.”

(VOVWORLD) - China's recent unfounded sovereignty claims in the East Sea have drawn strong backlash from the international community, who say that disobeying international law will incur consequences, including increased tension with the United States and irreparable damage to its relations with other countries.

(VOVWORLD) - The world community is focused on the United States, where mass protests are taking place across the nation, triggered by the death of an unarmed black man while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But discrimination protests have now spread beyond the US.

(VOVWORLD) - The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam says many foreign airlines have proposed resuming flights to Vietnam. The Ministry of Transport is considering a date to resume international flights.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has contained the COVID-19 epidemic but its impacts have damaged the incomes of workers. Creating jobs in the post-epidemic period is high on the agenda of the ongoing National Assembly meeting.

(VOVWORLD) -The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the US-China conflict to flare up, changing the global political and economic picture.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic has drawn international praise. For more than 40 days Vietnam has had no new cases of community transmission and not a single COVID-19 death has been reported. As a second wave of the epidemic begins to appear in many countries, the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Response and public health experts are urging strengthened preventive measures.