(VOVWORLD) -US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met her Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Washington DC on Thursday to discuss bilateral trade.

(VOVWORLD) -US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that the world's leading economy could avoid a debt default scenario, even though lawmakers began a 10-day vacation without reaching an agreement to raise the public debt ceiling.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on Friday met with President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan Hosoda Hiroyuki, as part of his working visit to Japan and attending the 28th International Conference on The Future of Asia.

(VOVWORLD) - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian expressed optimism on Thursday regarding the ongoing negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and remove Western sanctions.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted full approval to Pfizer's oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid, clearing the way for the drugmaker to sell the drug at market rates once US government supplies dwindle.

(VOVWORLD) - 160 Vietnamese food producers are displaying their products at Thaifex Anuga 2023 in Thailand – the largest food and beverage trade show in Asia for retailers, supermarkets, hotels, and restaurants.

(VOVWORLD) - The White House and Republican congressional negotiators on Thursday were closing in on a deal that would raise the government's 31.4-trillion-USD debt ceiling, according to House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

(VOVWORLD) - Indian Ambassador Sandeep Arya said on Thursday that Buddhism has become a cultural, spiritual and friendship bridge connecting the Vietnamese and Indian peoples.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam aims to reduce the rate of tobacco use among males aged from 15 to less than 39% in the 2023-2025 period, according to the freshly-approved National Strategy on Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control to 2030.

(VOVWORLD) - A light show of nearly 2,000 drones will delight the audience at the live-broadcast opening ceremony of the 2023 Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa Sea Festival on June 3.