(VOVworld) - Standard Chartered Bank has donated 800,000 USD to an initiative to help prevent and treat cases of avoidable blindness in the Mekong Delta, according to officials at Orbis...
(VOVworld) – A number of terror attacks took place during the first month of 2016. Terrorism has expanded to Asia, prompting Asian countries to tighten security and contribute more to the...
(VOVworld) - Vietnam’s housing market is expected to enjoy another good year after record sales in 2015 aided by improved economic conditions and infrastructure and lower interest rates
(VOVworld) - Syrian rebels in a former opposition stronghold in Homs will relinquish nearly half of their heavy weapons as part of a landmark truce with the government
(VOVworld) – The German government predicts that up to 1 million migrants will likely enter the Europe in 2016, most of them will try to arrive in Germany
(VOVworld) – The Islamic State group has lost an estimated 40 percent of the territory it once held in Iraq and 20 percent in Syria, the U.S.-led coalition fighting...
(VOVworld) – People across the world welcomed the New Year 2016 as security is tightened. An estimated 1.6 million people flooded into central Sydney, around the Sydney harbor and Opera...
(VOVworld) - The economic cost of disasters across the world dropped in 2015 to around USD 85 billion from USD 113 million last year, reinsurance firm Swiss Re said on Saturday
(VOVworld) - Three layers of architectural structures have been found at the Thanh Cha excavation site in central Binh Dinh province – home to vestiges of Vijaya, the political and cultural hub...
(VOVworld) – COP21, the UN Convention on Climate Change, which began on December 30 in Paris, has entered a critical period. After some positive early signals, 195 countries now have to...
(VOVworld) - Cuba and the United States held the first round of discussions Tuesday over one of the most contentious issues remaining between the two countries: the billions of dollars each...
(VOVworld) – From January 1, 2016, Vietnam will officially implement a new policy on multidimensional poverty reduction. Ministries and sectors have been preparing for effective implementation of the policy
(VOVworld) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and Vice President of the World Bank Laura Tusk co-chaired a high-level dialogue on responding to climate...
(VOVworld) – Operations against the self-proclaimed Islamic State and other terrorist and extremist groups have intensified and enlisted more countries. Besides airstrikes and ground attacks, blocking IS’s multiple revenue...
(VOVworld) – The UN has called on the UK to take more responsibilities in addressing the EU refugee crisis, especially as winter approaches, said United Nations special representative for international migration...
(VOVworld) – Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that preparations have been made to allow next week’s parliamentary elections for Egyptians voting abroad to be carried out smoothly
(VOVworld) – Last Monday, Vietnam and 11 other countries completed TPP negotiations. Making full use of the deal’s opportunities and anticipating and minimizing accompanying risks will be keys for...
(VOVworld)- On Wednesday, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs held a seminar on applying ITC in implementing social security programs
(VOVworld) - Three scientists from Ireland, Japan, and China have won the Nobel prize in medicine for discoveries that helped fight infections caused by parasites, the Nobel Prize Committee announced Monday
(VOVworld) - At least 310 people were killed, and 450 injured, in a stampede near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday morning. This has been the worst disaster in the history of the Haji pilgrimage in...