(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam put forth proposals to enhance the role of parliaments in climate change issues as the Vietnamese delegation led by Chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee for External Relations Vu Hai Ha attended the 144th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Bali, Indonesia, this week.

(VOVWORLD) -The FujiMart grocery supermarket chain in Vietnam will add 50 new stores throughout the country by 2028, according to a joint-venture contract signed on Thursday between BRG Group and its Japanese partner, Sumitomo Corporation.

(VOVWORLD) - The first-ever hot air balloon festival in Hoi An city kicked off on Friday morning, part of activities marking the Visit Vietnam Year 2022 hosted by the central province of Quang Nam.

(VOVWORLD) - Almost three-quarters of the UN General Assembly demanded aid access and civilian protection in Ukraine on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - NATO leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday agreed to beef up their eastern flank in the face of the conflict in Ukraine.

(VOVWORLD) - Google said this week it would allow Spotify Technology to use its own payment system in its Android app as part of a new pilot aimed at countering appmakers' concerns about high fees and allegedly anticompetitive behavior.

(VOVWORLD) - Music superstars Beyonce and Billie Eilish will perform their Oscar-nominated songs live at this year's Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, producers announced this week.

(VOVWORLD) - South Korea is seeing a huge uptick in cases. The Korean Disease Control and Prevention Agency reported 470 deaths on Thursday, the most since the pandemic broke out, though new infections fell to 396,000 from 490,000 the previous day.

(VOVWORLD) - The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday handed the US Embassy in Moscow a list of its diplomats who must leave.

(VOVWORLD) - NATO’s deployment of international peacekeepers to Ukraine will have grave consequences, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at a press briefing in Moscow on Wednesday. Peskov told reporters that the Collective Security Treaty Organization sending its peace keepers to Ukraine is not planned yet.