(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam places importance on developing the comprehensive partnership with the US, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said on Friday in reply to reporters’ question about the country’s reaction to US President Donald Trump’s remark on the Vietnam-US economic-trade ties.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had bilateral meetings with world leaders on the fringes of the ongoing G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Leaders from BRICS nations discussed the role of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the global economy, and trade wars on the sidelines of the ongoing G20 summit in Japan’s western city of Osaka on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s GDP expanded 6.76 percent year-on-year in the past 6 months, the second highest rate since 2011, the General Statistics Office said Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Students will be equipped with necessary knowledge and skills to become global citizens at the International Education City (IEC) in Quang Ngai province, said Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thi Nghia at the project’s inauguration ceremony on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The 14th Group of 20 (G20) summit kicked off in Osaka, Japan on Friday, with issues pertaining to the global economy, multilateral trade and development taking center stage.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the specialized discussion on digital economy chaired by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday as part of the G20 Summit in Osaka.

(VOVWORLD) - Seven more Vietnamese military officers will join the United Nations peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and Central African Republic. The Ministry of Defense handed over the State President’s decisions related to the officers and assigned tasks to them at a function held in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has maintained social stability and high economic growth over the past few years, an important factor in making foreign investors feel secure about running a business or investing in the nation, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told the leaders of 30 Japanese technology firms at a meeting in Tokyo on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese passport climbed two places to 73rd out of 94 positions occupied by 199 countries and territories but remains in the bottom rung.