(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly’s second extraordinary session will begin in Hanoi on January 5 next year with the national masterplan for the 2021-2025 period topping the agenda.

(VOVWORLD) - Construction of the 3rd passenger terminal at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Vietnam’s largest airport, in HCM City began on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - 12 sub-projects of the mega project to build the eastern section of the North-South expressway in the 2021-2025 period will commence next Sunday, the first day of 2023.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s total import-export revenue hit a record 732 billion USD this year, up 10% year-on-year.

(VOVWORLD) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will stand by its sovereignty, security, and rights in a phone call on Friday with his US counterpart Antony Blinken.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Joe Biden signed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Friday, a spending bill of 858 billion USD for military programs and other priorities.

(VOVWORLD) - A winter festival with the theme "Sa Pa - Snowy Paradise" opened in Sa Pa town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on Friday, featuring many cultural and art programs.

(VOVWORLD) - Pop star Justin Bieber is nearing a deal worth about 200 million USD to sell his music rights to Hipgnosis Songs Capital, the Wall Street Journal reported this week, citing people familiar with the matter.

(VOVWORLD) - General Motors said Tuesday it is recalling 140,000 Chevrolet Bolt EVs in North America because the carpet could catch fire after a crash where a front seat belt pretensioner deploys.

(VOVWORLD) - Diplomatic efforts to establish a nuclear safety and security zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP) in Ukraine are "making headway," Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Friday, a day after he met and consulted with senior Russian officials on the matter in Moscow.