(VOVWORLD) - Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Tong Thi Phong held a meeting with her Lao counterpart Bounpone Bouttanavong on the sidelines of the 141st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-141) in Belgrade, Serbia, on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on Monday for outgoing UK defence attaché Colonel David Houghton and his successor Col. Beatrix V.H. Walcot.

(VOVWORLD) -The first phase of a hi-tech healthcare complex, expected to cost more than 1 billion USD, got under way in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -Speaker of the Council of the Nation (upper house) of Algeria’s Salah Goudjil said on Monday that he supports the Algerian Government to join the Vietnamese Government in boosting bilateral cooperation particularly economy and trade.

(VOVWORLD) -A racetrack complex offering horse betting, will be built in Hanoi's Soc Son district on an area of over 100 hectares.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Tuesday attended the inauguration of the Hoang Van Thu Bridge over the Cam river in Hai Phong city.

(VOVWORLD) - A Spanish Supreme Court judge has issued an international arrest warrant for former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont following the sentencing of 12 of his pro-Catalonia independence colleagues for their role in a 2017 secession push led by him.

(VOVWORLD) - The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday agreed to approve a request from the United States for authorization to impose retaliatory measures on the European Union (EU) and four EU member states in the Airbus case.

(VOVWORLD) - Indonesian police have arrested 22 suspects with links to Islamic State (ISIS) following the stabbing of Indonesia’s Chief Security Minister Wiranto in Banten province last week.

(VOVWORLD) - EU members on Monday pledged to suspend weapons exports to Turkey in response to Ankara's incursion into northern Syria, but stopped short of implementing a formal EU-wide arms embargo.