(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order Friday giving ByteDance 90 days to either sell or spin off its TikTok business in the US.

(VOVWORLD) - European Union foreign ministers held urgent talks on Friday about current military tensions between Greece and Turkey over drilling rights in the eastern Mediterranean.

(VOVWORLD) - Shopping malls and supermakets in Hanoi have allocated a large area to display Vietnamese products in recent months.

(VOVWORLD) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Saturday - the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.

(VOVWORLD) - Over 350 Vietnamese citizens stranded in Japan due the COVID-19 pandemic were brought home safely on Friday on a flight conducted by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines in coordination with the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and both nations' authorities.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Permanent Mission to the UN on Friday held a ceremony to mourn former Party leader Le Kha Phieu and open a digital condolence book for Vietnamese people in New York, countries’ representatives, and local authorities, to deliver their condolences. The ceremony will run until August 17.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam wants to tighten cooperation with Cambodia in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said at a reception in Hanoi on Saturday for her Cambodian counterpart Samdech Heng Samrin, who led a high-ranking delegation to pay homage to former Party leader Le Kha Phieu.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said that by 6pm Friday Vietnam recorded 18 more new cases of COVID-19: 17 are linked to the Da Nang outbreak and 1 case who illegally entered Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City and are being quarantined.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc inspected the periodic renovation of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, which began two months ago and completed on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Embassies and representative offices overseas held memorial services on Friday to pay tribute to former Party chief Le Kha Phieu.