(VOVWORLD) -Party General Secretary To Lam called modern urban areas the driving force of development and the rich, beautiful, cultural and sustainable rural areas the solid rear.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the third National Conference on Accelerating Public Investment in 2025, which was held on Wednesday in Hanoi and connected online to provinces and centrally-run cities nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged world leaders to turn commitments into action as he arrived in New York for the High-Level Week of the 80th General Assembly (UNGA-80).

(VOVWORLD) - The Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and other international organizations in Geneva recently hosted a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (September 2) at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

(VOVWORLD) -UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is proposing a 15-percent cut to the UN’s regular budget in 2026, equivalent to 500 million USD, bringing it down to 3.2 billion USD as the UN struggles with chronic liquidity problems made more acute by US President Donald Trump’s policies.

(VOVWORLD) - Economics, trade, science, and technology are the potential areas for stronger cooperation between Vietnam and the US, said Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Dung, ahead of President Luong Cuong and his spouse, and a high-ranking delegation’s trip to the US to attend the High-Level General Debate of the 80th UN General Assembly (UNGA-80) from September 21–24.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam tops the world in the indexes concerning high-tech imports, high-tech exports, and creative goods exports, according to this year’s Global Innovation Index (GII) released on Tuesday by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland.

(VOVWORLD) -The Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) on Tuesday officially signed a free trade agreement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after eight years of negotiations.

(VOVWORLD) -Thousands of Israelis on Tuesday night gathered outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem to protest the military’s launch of a large-scale ground offensive to seize Gaza City.

(VOVWORLD) - The 34th WorldFood Moscow international food exhibition opened on Tuesday at Moscow’s Crocus Expo Center, featuring over 1,000 exhibitors from more than 30 countries and 60 localities in Russia.