(VOVWORLD) -National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has urged the State Audit sector to strengthen transparency, uprightness, and professionalism and to ensure the independence principle and rule of law.

(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong has presented a badge to Tran Duc Luong, former Politburo member and former President, for his 60-year Party membership and to Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh, Party Central Committee member and Vice President, for her 40-year Party membership. The conferment ceremony was held in the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - A ceremony was held in Hanoi to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Traditional Day of Vietnamese students and honor 10 outstanding young Hanoi students in 2019.

(VOVWORLD) - A survey by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour shows that the average income of employees last year increased more than 17%, mainly due to changes in regional minimum wages and base salaries.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s presidency of the UN Security Council this month is a golden opportunity to boost its status with its foreign policy of independence and self-reliance, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said in a recent article.

(VOVWORLD) - NATO and EU called on Iran to avoid “further violence and provocations”, as tensions mount in the Middle East after US forces killed Iran’s top general, Qasem Soleimani, and Iran fired ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing US military personnel on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles targeting two Iraqi military bases manned with US and coalition personnel at Ain Al-Asad and Erbil, the Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman confirmed on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly Standing Committee’s 41st session will begin in Hanoi on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - VOV’s K-pop contest, a playground for young K-pop fans, has come to Viet Nam for the first time though the joint efforts of The Voice of Vietnam, Broadcasting Development Joint Stock Company (BDC), and Sublime Entertainment Concert Company.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran fired rockets early on Wednesday at Iraq’s al Asad airbase, which hosts U.S. forces, hours after the funeral of an Iranian commander whose killing in a US drone strike has raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East.