(VOVWORLD) - The Ukraine Parliament has rejected President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s proposed changes to Ukraine’s voting system before a snap national election scheduled for July.

(VOVWORLD) - US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s administration is ready to hold new talks with China if both sides can make progress from previous talks.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) held a pre-disaster meeting on Wednesday in Hanoi to renew its preparedness for natural disasters.

(VOVWORLD) - Pham Duc Hai, Vice Chairman of the People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City and Tom Tate, Mayor of the city of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, discussed ways to step up cooperation between the two localities at a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - VinTech City, an affiliate of Vingroup, on Wednesday introduced a tertiary cooperation program to support job training, study and technology startups. It will fund scientists and students to study and produce valuable products with a high rate of application.

(VOVWORLD) - Kazakhstan’s Embassy in Hanoi informed the media that Kazakhstan will hold an early presidential election on June 9.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his hope for effectively tapping potential of cooperation with Russia at the Vietnam-Russia Business Forum in Moscow on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) -The Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control held a meeting on Wednesday in response to Vietnam’s Natural Disaster Prevention and Control Day (May 22).

(VOVWORLD) -National Assembly deputies on Wednesday discussed in groups revisions to the Criminal Code.

(VOVWORLD) -More than 150 delegates met at the plenary conference of the Public Expenditure Management Network in Asia (PEMNA) in Ha Long city on Wednesday.