(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has praised enterprises and entrepreneurs for bringing about national prosperity.

(VOVWORLD) - The Party Central Committee on Saturday announced that the Committee convened its 11th plenary meeting in Hanoi from Monday to Saturday to discuss and give opinions on draft reports to be submitted to the 13th National Party Congress.

(VOVWORLD) -A music performance celebrating 10 years since Vietnamese composer Nguyen Van Quy, 94, was awarded the cultural heritage award Patrimoenia took place in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday.

(VOVWORLD) -France and Cyprus are conducting naval maneuvers off Cyprus as the east Mediterranean island nation is embroiled in a tense dispute with Turkey over offshore gas drilling.

(VOVWORLD) -Some 31 passengers have been kidnapped from an express bus by an insurgent group in Myanmar's Rakhine state, said police Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) -The 11th plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee closed in Hanoi on Saturday afternoon after 6 days of meeting.

(VOVWORLD) - Approximately 200 volunteers are collecting rubbish in Hong (Red) River area and Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi this weekend.

(VOVWORLD) - A festival opened in downtown Hanoi on Friday night to promote the typical culture, tourism products, and farm produce of 19 ethnic minority groups living in the mountain province of Ha Giang. Festival goers to the opening ceremony were treated to art performances by the Nung ethnic people and a traditional ritual to worship the Forest God.

(VOVWORLD) - A ceremony to receive the certificate recognizing the art of the Red Dao people’s traditional costume decoration as a national intangible cultural heritage took place Saturday in the Na Hang-Lam Binh nature reserve in Tuyen Quang province.

(VOVWORLD) - South Korea and Japan agreed to hold further talks at the World Trade Organization regarding their trade dispute over Japan's export restrictions against Korea.