(VOVWORLD) -The tourism sector served 8 million tourists during the five-day holiday from April 27 to May 1, up 14.2% this year, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism reported Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he has still not seen a plan for Israel's planned offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that would protect civilians, repeating that Washington could not support such an assault.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam's Industrial Production Index (IIP) for April is estimated to rise 0.8% from March and 6.3% from the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam targets 1.8-2 billion USD from cassava exports by 2030 under a project to sustainably develop cassava recently approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

(VOVWORLD) - Successfully upgrading the stock market to a new emerging market status could bring Vietnam an additional 10 billion USD in investment, including both direct and indirect capital, KB Vietnam Securities Joint Stock Company (KBSV) reported, citing sources from the World Bank.

(VOVWORLD) - As Chair of the Asia Pacific Group (APG) at the UN for April, Vietnam drafted and presented a number of joint statements on behalf of the group, including the first joint statement on issues relating to indigenous people, according to Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Vietnam's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam served more than 6.2 million international visitors in the first four months of this year, up 68.3% year on year and 3.9% compared to the same period in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

(VOVWORLD) - Growth in the Asia-Pacific region will moderate to 4.5% this year from the outperformed 5% in 2023, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest "Regional Economic Outlook Asia and Pacific."

(VOVWORLD) - The euro zone economy grew more than expected in the first quarter of 2024, according to the European statistics agency Eurostat on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, concluded Tuesday in Ottawa with an advanced draft text of the instrument and agreement on intersessional work ahead of the fifth session (INC-5) in November.