(VOVWORLD) -The Lao Ministry of National Defense held talks on Thursday in Vientiane on how much the 1954 Dien Bien Phu Victory means to the Vietnam-Laos special solidarity and war alliance.

(VOVWORLD) - Like many other countries, Vietnam follows with keen interest the expanding membership of BRICS – a group of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, according to spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry Pham Thu Hang.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam hopes to become Samsung’s strategic production and export stronghold, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting with visiting Chief Finance Officer of Samsung Park Hark Kyu in Hanoi on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian army's military parade commemorating the 79th anniversary of victory over Nazism in World War II (May 9, 1945 - May 9, 2024) took place at the Red Square in Moscow on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - CIA Director William Burns told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials at a meeting on Wednesday that the US is optimistic about potential of diplomatic breakthrough with Hamas.

(VOVWORLD) - Dien Bien province welcomed more than 1 million tourists, including 4,800 foreign tourists, from January 1 to May 7, said the Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Dien Bien province. Total revenue from tourism activities reached nearly 75 million USD.

(VOVWORLD) - Quang Ninh province maintains its first place at the ranking of the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) and Provincial Green Index (PGI) 2023 which were released in Hanoi on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Spokesperson for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang on Thursday briefed reporters on Vietnam’s activities at the dialogue session on Vietnam's National Report under the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Monday in Geneva.

(VOVWORLD) - Ambassadors from EU countries agreed on Wednesday to use windfall profits from Russian central bank assets frozen in the EU for Ukraine's defense, the Belgian government said.

(VOVWORLD) -The Paris Court of Appeals' hearing, which lasted for four hours on Tuesday, has yet to rule on a lawsuit filed by Vietnamese-French Tran To Nga against 14 US chemical companies that supplied Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin to the US army during the war in Vietnam.