(VOVworld) – Despite global challenges, international travel grows 4% with 1.2 billion tourist arrivals in 2016. This is an encouraging figure for the economic growth of countries.

(VOVworld) - The situation on the Korean peninsula grew even tenser after the US and South Korea on Wednesday moved parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to its designated site in Seongju County in central South Korea and the US conducted live fire drills with South Korea and Japan.

(VOVworld) – Penguins, one of the world’s most special species, are under threat of both climate change and human impact. Scientists are warning of the extinction of penguins in the wild within decades if no action is taken.

(VOVworld) – Con Co island has a diverse ecosystem of forests and beaches that are attractive to tourists. Quang Tri province has developed a tourism plan to turn Con Co island into a national marine ecotourism site.

(VOVworld)-Vietnam is celebrating Workers’ Month to mark Labor Day, May 1. Last Saturday, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a dialogue with workers in the central economic region.

(VOVworld)-Scores of carriers are opening new air routes to and from Vietnam to meet increasing travel demand.

(VOVworld) - Facebook has unveiled a project to create a brain-computer interface that lets you type with your thoughts and hear with your skin. If it succeeds, the project will create a tool that will enable disabled persons to make contact without a phone.

(VOVworld) – The French presidential election and other elections in the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy could revive Europe or break it apart.

(VOVworld) – The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has pledged to support Vietnam as much in fiscal year 2017 as it did in the previous fiscal year. This means Vietnam remains one of the countries with the biggest JICA-funded projects.

(VOVworld) – The Nicaraguan Canal, which was expected to become Nicaragua’s largest infrastructure project, is one of the Nicaraguan government’s efforts to lift Nicaragua out of poverty. But since the groundbreaking ceremony in December 2014, nothing else has happened.