(VOVWORLD) - The Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) forecasts that Vietnam is likely to achieve upper middle-income status in 2023 and pass Chinese Taiwan’s economy in 2035 in terms of scale.

(VOVWORLD) - The economic role of the Mekong Delta has gradually downsized compared with other regions, with its contribution to Vietnam’s GDP plummeting in the past three decades, according to a report released on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Nigerian police say hundreds of students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state.

(VOVWORLD) - Senior Party members began a meeting in Hanoi on Monday to consider and adopt draft documents of the upcoming 13th National Party Congress and introduce candidates to the Politburo and the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat for the 13th tenure.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday posthumously awarded the prestigious Medal of Nasr, one of Iran's highest military honors, on nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was murdered last month.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam had confirmed 2 new COVID-19 cases as of Sunday, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - The UK and the EU on Sunday agreed to continue post-Brexit trade talks to avoid a no-deal Brexit.

(VOVWORLD) - All electricity services are now available on the National Public Service Portal, the Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) has announced.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is Australia’s perfect economic partner, said a joint report by Asia Society Australia and the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT University.

(VOVWORLD) - European Union and British negotiators are on the “very last mile” in negotiations for a trade accord and the architecture in place is “fine” but details remain, the EU’s chief executive said on Monday.