(VOVworld) – Relations among China, Japan, and South Korea have been tense recently after a group of 85 Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in downtown Tokyo during the annual autumn festival. Like many previous visits, this one angered China and South Korea.

(VOVworld) –A year ago today, Vietnam was elected to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), one of the UN’s six main agencies, in recognition of its socio-economic achievements, and its contributions to the UN and to the creation of a better world.

(VOVworld) – 85 Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in downtown Tokyo during a four-day autumn festival. Like many previous visits, it has angered China and South Korea.

(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc presented the government report on this year’s socio-economy and plans for next year at the opening of the National Assembly meeting on Thursday. He said despite several difficulties, Vietnam has achieved important results in most sectors. It has illustrated profound effort of the Party and people. Vietnam will do its best to record more impressive economic achievements in 2017.

(VOVworld)- The 14th National Assembly will convene its 2nd session in Hanoi on October 20. Several meetings between National Assembly deputies and voters have been held prior to the event.

(VOVworld) – Torrential rains and heavy floods in the central region has claimed many lives over the past week. Thousands of houses and public works such as clinics, schools, roads, and irrigation facilities have been damaged. People in inundated areas, particularly in Quang Binh and Ha Tinh province, are suffering. But they are not alone. People nationwide have turned their hearts and minds to helping them recover from the latest natural disaster.

(VOVword) – Tense relations between Russia and the US continue unabated over Syria, Eastern Europe, and cyber warfare.

(VOVworld) – The Ho Chi Minh Youth Union and the Vietnam Students’ Association have launched a contest on startup ideas as part a national startup campaign. Held for the first time, the competition is aimed at nurturing innovation, reform, and a start-up spirit among Vietnamese youngsters.

(VOVworld) – The public appreciates the 4th session of the 12th Party Central Committee (PCC) for its candid assessment of degradation in political ideology, morality, and lifestyle, as well as “self-evolution”, and “self-transformation” within the Party. People nationwide expect that in order to strengthen the Party, every Party member should promote the sense of self-discipline in implementing the resolution on Party building.

(VOVworld) - A firebomb burned through the Republican Party headquarters in North Carolina's Orange County, the US, on Sunday. No casualties were reported in the incident, which occurred less than a month before the presidential election. But it raised concerns over violence against America’s democracy.