(VOVworld) – Vietnam is making great efforts to reform mass mobilization at the grassroots level to better serve the country’s industrialization, modernization, and international integration process.

(VOVworld)- Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang is on an official visit to Vietnam. The 3-day visit is of great importance in strengthening and enhancing political trust and boosting the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

(VOVworld) – Amidst a series of attacks on and suppression of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, the US has officially suspended military and economic aid to Egypt, one of its principal allies in the Middle East.

(VOVworld) – The 8th Plenum of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi has discussed a number of key national issues. Although these issues are not new, they were placed in the context of unpredictable complications in the region and the world. We bring you the gist of an article by General Director of Radio the Voice of Vietnam Nguyen Dang Tien on the plenum’s decisions.

(VOVworld) – A team of experts from the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has begun to destroy Syria’s chemical weapon arsenal estimated at 1,000 tons. There have been many positive comments on the work but it’s too early to say the work will go smoothly in the middle of a civil war.

(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Tuesday will attend the 23rd ASEAN Summit and related meetings from October 8th to 10th in Brunei. As a responsible and active member, Vietnam and other member states will contribute to a transforming ASEAN towards a unified Community by the end of 2015.

(VOVworld)- President Truong Tan Sang is leading a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 21st APEC Summit in Indonesia which opened on Monday. The President is scheduled to deliver a message affirming that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is not only important to Vietnam’s development in economics, foreign relations and security but also an effective channel boosting cooperation and strengthening bilateral relations with APEC members and APEC’s strategic and comprehensive partners.

(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the UN General Assembly in New York on September 27 that “In Vietnam, human beings are the center and target of development”

(VOVworld)- Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday after Silvio Berlusconi, facing revolt in his own center-right party, backtracked on threats to bring down the government.

(VOVworld) – For the 1st time in 17 years, the US government has partially shut down after the two houses of Congress failed to agree on a new budget.