(VOVWORLD) -The Danang Electronic Carnival will take place in the East Sea Park, the central city of Da Nang, on Friday, organizers told a press conference on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Minister of National Defense Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Matteo Perego di Cremnago, Italian Undersecretary of State for Defense, co-chaired the fourth Vietnam-Italy Defense Policy Dialogue on Monday as part of the former’s working visit to Italy.

(VOVWORLD) - The Government will give priority to ironing out difficulties facing businesses and maintaining macro-economic stability to ensure a growth rate of 6.5% and cap inflation at 4.5% this year, Prime Minister Pham Minh said at a Government meeting in Hanoi on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on Monday chaired a meeting of the Appraisal Council of the National Environmental Protection Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.

(VOVWORLD) - US firm CT Strategies is considering the possibility of developing free trade zones in Binh Duong, an industrial hub in southern Vietnam, said Andrew Farrelly, CEO and Co-founder of CT Strategies, in a working session with the Binh Duong provincial administration yesterday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday suggested the UN and its Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) carry forward their strengths to support member countries, including Vietnam, in socio-economic development policy making and enforcement.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam always values human rights as well as respects, facilitates, and encourages activities of socio-political and non-governmental organisations operating in Vietnam, President Vo Van Thuong said during a reception in Hanoi on Monday for Ambassador Giorgio Aliberti, outgoing Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented gifts to the national football squad in Hanoi on Monday before their departure for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 in Australia and New Zealand.

(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also Secretary of the Central Military Commission, chaired the commission’s sixth session in Hanoi on Monday to review the fulfillment of military and national defence tasks, and Party building in the first half of this year, and roll out tasks for the last six months.

(VOVWORLD) - Russia remains open to a political and diplomatic settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, but prospects are slim due to the stance of Kiev and its Western curators, who place their bets on a military solution, Gennady Gatilov, Russia's permanent representative to the UN Office in Geneva, said in an interview with Russian daily Izvestia.