(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnam Food and Goods Week was underway this week in Nottingham city, in the Midlands region of England, to promote Vietnamese products and business opportunities. It was organized by the Trade Office of the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK and EUTEK Group.

(VOVWORLD) -Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree to terminate Russia’s participation in a number of agreements within the Council of Europe framework, Russian New Agency TASS quoted a document published by the official Russian web portal of legislative information.

(VOVWORLD) -As of June 30, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) had disbursed 382 million USD of preferential loans to more than 213,000 borrowers as part of the Government's Socio-Economic Development and Recovery Program, said the Banks’ General Director Duong Quyet Thang at the review meeting of the first half of this year on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) -The Government Office on Saturday issued a document conveying the Prime Minister's direction on strengthening the prevention and control of COVID-19 amid unpredictable developments of the pandemic, particularly the emergence of a new variant BA.5 of the virus that has entered Vietnam and increased the risk of outbreak recurrence.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son will attend the 7th Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (MLC) in Bagan, Myanmar, on Monday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Other MLC participating countries include Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and China.

(VOVWORLD) - Eurozone inflation accelerated to another record high in June, official data showed on Friday, as the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine continued to hammer the European economy.

(VOVWORLD) - The UN General Assembly’s first high-level meeting on road safety called Friday for global action to cut the annual toll of nearly 1.3 million deaths and 50 million injuries in traffic crashes by at least half by decade’s end.

(VOVWORLD) - Sweeping Western sanctions are only hastening integration between Russia and Belarus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam resolutely opposes and demands Taiwan to cancel live-fire drills in the waters around Ba Binh island belonging to Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and not to repeat similar violations in the future.

(VOVWORLD) - The Australian National ELT (English Language Teaching) Accreditation Scheme Ltd, or NEAS, has offered its Quality Endorsement to Ho Chi Minh City based Hoa Sen University’s English for International Communication (EIC) Program, making it the first Vietnamese university to gain the endorsement.