(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary To Lam emphasized on Saturday that the rapidly changing global and regional landscapes are placing greater demands on Vietnam’s defense intelligence sector.

(VOVWORLD) - Japanese retail giant Aeon and the Aeon 1% Club Foundation have donated 50,000 USD to support Vietnamese communities affected by recent devastating storms.

(VOVWORLD) - Norwegian-Irish musical duo Secret Garden are in Vietnam and ready for their first show in the country, at Hanoi’s National Convention Centre on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Elevating ties with Vietnam to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership is one of three tangible outcomes of New Zealand’s foreign policy reset over the past year, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in a speech to the ASEAN-New Zealand Business Council in Auckland on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Poland’s Sejm (lower house) on Friday passed a bill ratifying the European Union-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA), with all 422 votes in favour.

(VOVWORLD) - Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly Kover Laszlo arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday morning, beginning an official visit to Vietnam that runs until Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam always attaches great importance to and gives special attention to deepening and advancing the Vietnam-UK Strategic Partnership to a new stage of development, Party General Secretary To Lam said during a reception in Hanoi on Friday for British Ambassador to Vietnam Iain Frew.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is in the population aging stage, with the elderly population increasing from 9.5 million in 2014 to 16.5 million people in 2025; and will have an “aged population” by 2036, said the Ministry of Health in a meeting of the National Committee for the Elderly on Friday in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - Representatives of domestic tourism enterprises and 50 travel companies from South Korea and the Philippines met in Ninh Binh on Friday as part of a famtrip to explore Vietnam’s tourism potential.

(VOVWORLD) - Nearly 14 million people in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan are at risk of severe hunger due to cuts in global humanitarian aid.