(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations is facing the closure 22 aid programs in Yemen within the next two months if countries don’t cash in 1 billion USD as they promised early this year.

(VOVWORLD) - Japan and the United States are approaching the “final stage” of talks on a bilateral trade deal, Japan’s trade negotiator Toshimitsu Motegi said Wednesday in Washington.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has asked China to withdraw its oil survey vessel and escorts from Vietnamese waters for the second time this month. Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang told the press on Thursday that Chinese ships have returned and seriously infringed on Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf defined in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

(VOVWORLD) - A conference on international integration and sustainable development in the digital era in the northwestern region took place in Dien Bien province on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on Thursday visited Quang Ninh province’s mountainous commune of Dong Son where over 98 percent of the local population are Dao ethnic minority people. The top legislator presented gifts to the local primary and secondary school.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is Asia’s bright spot amid looming trade tensions, said the latest report on Vietnam’s economy by the United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB), which forecast the country’s economy will expand 6.7 per cent in 2019.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has expressed his belief in the further growth of bilateral ties between Vietnam and Australia.

(VOVWORLD) - A festival themed “Preserving and promoting Cham ethnic culture in local tourism" closed on Wednesday in Phu Yen province.

(VOVWORLD) - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang on Wednesday expressed hope the two sides can find a mutually-acceptable solution through trade negotiations.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow will take action to counter the threat of a ground-based cruise missile recently tested by the US.