(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on specific measures to forge multifaceted cooperation between the two countries at their meeting in Ankara on Wednesday during the Prime Minister's official visit to Turkey.

(VOVWORLD) - President Vo Van Thuong on Wednesday received the Governor of Fukuoka prefecture and leaders of Nagasaki, Miyazaki, Saga, Kagoshima prefectures in the Kyushu region, as part of his ongoing official visit to Japan.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and Turkey aim to work closely to raise bilateral trade to 4 billion USD in the near future, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz at a press conference after holding their talks on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - President Vo Van Thuong on Wednesday delivered a speech at the Japanese Diet. The event drew more than 400 parliamentarians of the two houses including Speaker of the House of Representatives Nukaga Fukushiro and Speaker of the House of Councilors Otsuji Hidehisa, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko and other members of the Japanese cabinet.

(VOVWORLD) - Finland will close its last border checkpoint with Russia for two weeks after a surge of asylum seekers crossing the frontier, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The European Union on Tuesday agreed to more than quadruple its spending on training Ukrainian soldiers, putting in close to an extra 200 million euros (220 million USD).

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam - Asia 2023 Smart City Summit was held in Hanoi on Wednesday with the theme “Data Mining - Building Smart Cities for Sustainable Development,” offering a forum for city leaders and officials nationwide to exchange views and visions on smart city development.

(VOVWORLD) - The Egyptian State Information Service (SIS) announced on Tuesday that over the past 4 days implementing a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip (from November 24-28), a total of 800 humanitarian aid shipments were delivered to the Gaza Strip by the Egyptian government and relevant parties.

(VOVWORLD) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday urged Hungary and Turkey to expedite the ratification process for Sweden's membership.

(VOVWORLD) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday released alarming new data indicating a significant increase in coastal flooding risk.