(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh arrived in Bucharest on Saturday, beginning an official visit to Romania at the invitation of Prime Minister Ion-Marcel Ciolacu.

(VOVWORLD) - Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue had a working session with the standing board of the Party Committee of the northern province of Thai Binh on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - President Vo Van Thuong on Saturday visited and presented gifts to soldiers and people in Tho Chau island commune of Kien Giang province - the most remote island commune in the southwest of the country – on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has full legal basis and historical evidence to affirm its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly), Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said on Saturday in response to reporters’ query on the country’s stance on China's occupation of Hoang Sa in 1974.

(VOVWORLD) - An Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 cargo plane made an emergency landing in Miami late Thursday shortly after departure after suffering an engine fire.

(VOVWORLD) - Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a UN report seen by Reuters on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - A delegation of the Vietnam Coast Guard Command led by Political Commissar, Lieutenant General Bùi Quốc Oai visited and delivered Lunar New Year (Tet) greetings to local authorities, armed forces units, and people in Con Dao District, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province this week.

(VOVWORLD) - Kien Giang provincial authorities and the Naval Region 5 Command held an award ceremony this week for a writing contest themed “External information service: Communication on seas, islands, and land borders”.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Coast Guard Command held a ceremony on Monday in Hanoi to assign tasks to Lieutenant Pham Vu Huy Hiep, who has been selected to undertake UN peacekeeping duties at the UN Mission in South Sudan.

(VOVWORLD) - A Vietnamese delegation led by Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and head of its Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung concluded a working trip to Italy and the Vatican on Friday.