(VOVWORLD) - Close to 8.5 million foreigners visited Vietnam in the first half of this year, a rise of 7.5 percent year on year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

(VOVWORLD) - Lawyers and experts from several countries gathered at an international seminar in Moscow on Thursday to seek peaceful resolutions to East Sea disputes.

(VOVWORLD) - The G20 Summit opened in Osaka, Japan, Friday, attended by leaders of the G20 and eight guest countries including Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Indonesia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected the appeal filed by Prabowo Subianto and Sandiaga Uno against the General Elections Commission’s declaration of Joko Widodo as the winner of the April’s presidential election.

(VOVWORLD) - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday accepted an invitation from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to visit Japan as a state guest next spring.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that a trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping is possible this weekend on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan but the White House is open to enforcing tougher measures.

(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations Security Council will establish an office in Haiti to support the country's government and increase stability, replacing a 15-year peacekeeping mission.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran warned the United States on Thursday against the violation of its borders, with parliament speaker Ali Larijani threatening a stronger reaction, this coming a week after Tehran shot down an American drone that spiked tension between the countries.

(VOVWORLD) - The Central Inter-sectoral Steering Committee on Food Safety opened a session in Hanoi to review its performance in the first half of this year and propose tasks for the rest of the year.

(VOVWORLD) - On the occasion of his ongoing trip to Japan to attend the G20 summit and pay a visit to the country, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc spoke to Japanese media agencies.