(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Sunday urged the Red River Delta to make full use of its potential and advantages for rapid and sustainable development so as to lead the country’s economic restructuring and growth model transformation.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Oanh defeated strong contenders from China, Japan, and Kuwait to win a gold medal in the women's 1,500-metre event at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana City, Kazakhstan, on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Brunei media gave wide coverage on Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s just-concluded visit to the country, highlighting the trip as a testament to the strong bilateral diplomatic relations.

(VOVWORLD) - Russia is ready to engage with Ukraine, but there should not be any preconditions for talks that should be based on the existing reality, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said in an interview with Zvezda television.

(VOVWORLD) - The Australian Government will provide a further 25 million AUD in emergency assistance to respond to growing global food insecurity and humanitarian crises.

(VOVWORLD) - UN aid chief Martin Griffiths on Saturday described the earthquake that hit southern Turkey and north-western Syria as the "worst event in 100 years in this region."

(VOVWORLD) - The rescue mission of Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security discovered and coordinated with international forces to rescue a victim trapped in the rubble caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey on Saturday, the first day of their operation in Adiyaman city.

(VOVWORLD) - The navies of Vietnam and Britain conducted a joint exercise on the waters of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on Saturday, involving ship 378 of Brigade 167 under Naval Region 2 and HMS Spey, the British Royal Navy’s offshore patrol vessel.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has been elected vice chair of the 24-member UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee of the 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, representing the Asia-Pacific region, as part of the committee’s 16th session.

(VOVWORLD) - A US fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying over Alaska, US officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States.