(VOVWORLD) - At least 19 people were killed and 300 injured when a shallow earthquake struck northeastern Pakistan, tearing car-sized cracks in roads and heavily damaging infrastructure.

(VOVWORLD) - China’s illegal actions in the East Sea, in the long run, will bring disadvantages to China, said Lucio Blanco Pitlo, a researcher at the Philippines’ Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s poverty rate has dropped to 0.74 percent this year from 35.5 percent in 1998, according to the 2019 Asian Poverty report released by the Boao Forum in Beijing on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that the House of Representatives will begin a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

(VOVWORLD) - Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tong Thi Phong has proposed to increase the building of trust, mutual understanding and respect, and promote co-operation, dialogue, and exchange of experience in parliaments.

(VOVWORLD) - The window to reduce tensions in the embattled region has become smaller and the moment has come for Iran to help defuse the crisis, French President Emmanuel Macron told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - The United States and North Korea are expected to resume denuclearization talks within two or three weeks, South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has characterized China as a “newly developed” rather than a developing economy and argued that status conferred developed-world obligations on the Chinese leadership.

(VOVWORLD) - The Government plans to issue a resolution with incentives and a vision through 2035 for the mechanical engineering sector next month, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

(VOVWORLD) - The Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) tops the list of Vietnam’s 50 most valuable brands for 2019.