(VOVWORLD) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday chose Romanian diplomat Cornel Feruta as its acting director-general to replace Yukiya Amano, who died last week.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam resolutely and consistently protects its sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction in the East Sea as defined in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) through peaceful means based on international law, the Foreign Ministry’s Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Europe welcomed Boris Johnson as Britain’s next prime minister with a thinly veiled reminder that it has no plans to renegotiate Theresa May’s divorce package.

(VOVWORLD) - Preparations for the ASEAN+3 Song Contest slated for Friday through Monday in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province, have been finalized.

(VOVWORLD) - The Japanese Coast Guard Training Vessel KOJIMA with 87 officers and crew members on board docked at the Da Nang International Port on Thursday to start a four-day visit to Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - The Chinese survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 8 and its escorts have conducted activities in the Southern area of the South China Sea, to which Vietnam refers as the East Sea.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has chaired a meeting of the Central Steering Committee on National Target Programs.

(VOVWORLD) - Top US and Chinese negotiators will meet face-to-face next week for the first time since Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to revive talks to end their year-long trade war.

(VOVWORLD) - The 9th annual CSIS East Sea conference took place in Washington D.C on Wednesday, focusing on challenges in managing maritime disputes and related international interests.

(VOVWORLD) - An online national conference on ways to combat smuggling, trade fraud, and forged goods opened in Hanoi on Thursday. Participants stressed the need to increase communications on the prevention of crime, human trafficking and social evils and focus more on high-risk areas.