(VOVWORLD) -The number of foreign tourists to Vietnam in the first seven months of this year is estimated at 9.8 million, up 7.9% year-on-year, according to a report by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).

(VOVWORLD) -The 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-52) and related meetings officially opened in Bangkok on Wednesday. The Vietnamese delegation was led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

(VOVWORLD) - The value of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) deals in Vietnam is forecast to hit 6.7 billion USD this year, according to organisers of the Vietnam M&A Forum 2019.

(VOVWORLD) - The 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-52) and related meetings opened in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday and will run through end of this week.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Information and Communications, and the Youth Union to create favorable conditions for startup companies to succeed.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s sea transport sector has maintained growth recently with the volume of goods transported by the Vietnamese fleet reaching more than 81 million tonnes in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 16 percent.

(VOVWORLD) - Senators Bob Menendez, Ed Markey, Patrick Leahy, and Brian Schatz have called on the Trump Administration to do more to deter further Chinese aggression in the East Sea.

(VOVWORLD) - The UN Security Council on Tuesday granted a sanctions exemption to an Italian company for the transfer of funds to support the EU Food Security Office's humanitarian assistance projects in North Korea, its website showed Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned China against waiting out his first term in office to finalise any trade deal, saying if he wins re-election in the November 2020 US Presidential Race, the outcome could be no agreement or a worse one.

(VOVWORLD) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a global model of multilateralism, said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the 2019 ASEAN Day reception in New York on Tuesday.