(VOVWORLD) -US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met last Friday on the sideline of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. It was the first official meeting between the leaders of Russia and the US since President Barack Obama met President Putin in 2015. The meeting marks an attempt to develop relations between the two nations.

(VOVWORLD) - European and Japanese leaders have signed a free trade agreement after 4 years of negotiation. Along with economic benefits, the deal reflects a political will and determination by both sides to reject Donald Trump’s protectionist posture against multi-national trade agreements.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City has put in place a number of solutions to realize the target of receiving 5.6 million foreign visitors this year. The city. They include the release of a Code of Conduct for tourists.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has begun a visit to the Netherlands at the invitation of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The visit is expected to strengthen bilateral cooperation, particularly in climate change and agriculture.

(VOVWORLD) - The French Environment Minister has recently announced that France will ban petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 to fulfill its commitment in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Some other European countries have promised to stop the production of fossil fuel vehicles.

(VOVWORLD) - Facebook, the world’s biggest social network with more than 2 billion users is rolling out an update that will throttle links from users who are judged to be posting “vast amounts” of low-quality content onto their profiles and clogging up the news feeds of their friends.

(VOVWORLD) -Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released incorrect and ill-intended information about freedom of speech and internet in Vietnam. This is a worn-out, biased accusation by the non-governmental organization about Vietnam’s human rights situation.

(VOVWORLD) - Health workers of the Vietnam Field Hospital – Military Hospital 175 have practiced hardly over the past few months despite severe weather to prepare for a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan assigned by the UN. They are now ready for UN assessment.

(VOVWORLD) -Ciel Rouge (Red Sky), a movie set in Vietnam in the early years of the Indochina War and shot entirely in Vietnam, will premiere in France in mid-July and in Vietnam in October.

(VOVWORLD) - Under the theme “Shaping an interconnected world”, the G20 Summit of developed and emerging economies will open in Hamburg on Friday. Amidst major changes in politics, security, and economics around the world, the summit intends to reach a consensus on fighting terrorism, preventing trade protection, climate change, migration policies, and big countries’ commitments to multilateral mechanisms.