(VOVWORLD) - A powerful typhoon with record-breaking winds and heavy rain battered the Tokyo region this week, triggering evacuation warnings for tens of thousands and causing widespread blackouts and transportation disruptions.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly Standing Committee began its regular session on Monday in Hanoi to debate revisions to laws on natural disaster prevention, securities, state audit, construction, investment, and labor.

(VOVWORLD) -Ho Chi Minh City’s Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients over the past 22 years has raised funds to help perform cataract surgeries for 600,000 poor people.

(VOVWORLD) -Fifty-five percent of Vietnamese online shoppers choose social networks over e-commerce platforms to buy fashion products, a new survey has found.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Sunday afternoon shared the joy of the Mid-Autumn Festival with children in Dai Minh commune, a flood prone area of Quang Nam province.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s U22 team defeated China 2-0 in Sunday’s friendly in preparation for the 30th Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines later this year.

(VOVWORLD) - Many companies are moving their factories from other countries to Vietnam, showing the potential for strong development of industrial real estate, according to Vietnam’s real estate agency Savills.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) on Friday launched the project “Mobile Banking – Financial Inclusion and Economic Empowerment for Low Income People and Women in Vietnam” - Phase 2 (Mobile Banking 2).

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese students won three gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the 4th International Olympiad of Metropolises which concluded on Friday in Moscow, Russia.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 70 domestic and foreign teams competed at the 2-day Hue Unicorn Dance Festival 2019, which concluded in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Sunday.