(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese lawmakers passed the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA) at its ongoing session in Hanoi on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly on Monday ratified Vietnam’s membership in the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, which supports the freedom and dignity of workers.

(VOVWORLD) - Musician Tran Quang Loc, who wrote the song “Are you Hanoi’s autumn?” passed away in his home on Sunday at the age of 71.

(VOVWORLD) -Bloomberg news site on Sunday run a story called “Vietnam breaks out of the Covid tourist trap”, saying Vietnam may be a model for the rest of the world as local holidaymakers are back.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly is scheduled to vote for resolutions ratifying the European Union (EU)-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement and the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement at plenary meetings during the second round of the ninth session of the Assembly in Hanoi this week.

(VOVWORLD) - Russia will respond in kind after the Czech government declared two staff at the Russian embassy in Prague persona non grata and ordered them to leave, the RIA news agency cited Vladimir Dzhabarov, a senior Russian lawmaker, as saying on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Indian and Chinese armies on Saturday held high-level military talks with a "positive" approach, signaling an intent to end their month-long standoff in mountainous eastern Ladakh through peaceful dialogue.

(VOVWORLD) - Demonstrations against police violence, triggered by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man while in police custody in Minneapolis, have been spreading in the US for 12 consecutive days.

(VOVWORLD) - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies have agreed to extend oil production cuts until the end of July that have helped bolster oil prices since their collapse in April in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Australian businesses in Southeast Asia are showing continued faith in regional economic integration despite the relatively lackluster cross border political cooperation so far seen in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.