(VOVWORLD) - A lantern releasing night to pray for world peace was held on Tuesday evening as part of the UN Day of Vesak being held in Tam Chuc pagoda, Ha Nam province.

(VOVWORLD) - Filipinos trooped to polling stations on Monday to cast their votes at the midterm elections touted as a litmus test of the popularity of President Rodrigo Duterte's administration after three years in power.

(VOVWORLD) - Buddhist approaches to global leadership and shared responsibility for a sustainable society topped the agenda at an international seminar on Monday as part of the ongoing UN Day of Vesak 2019 celebration in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) -The top ten achievements of the 2018 National Target Programs (NTPs) were announced in Hanoi on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) -All eight Vietnamese 12th grade students won medals at the 20th Asian Physics Olympiad—two silvers, five bronzes and a certificate of merit.

(VOVWORLD) - The world is “not on track” to limit global temperature increase, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Sunday in New Zealand during his Pacific tour.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam always views the United Nations as one of the priorities of its foreign policy and a leading partner, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said while receiving Under-Secretary-General of the UN Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, who is also Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

(VOVWORLD) - The 4th ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) maritime security field training exercise wrapped up in Singapore on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Ecuador's prosecutors say they will give the US all the documents and belongings WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange left in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London when he was arrested by British police last month.

(VOVWORLD) - Foreign Buddhist dignitaries and followers are attending the celebration of the UN Vesak Day 2019 in Tam Chuc pagoda in Ha Nam province, just 60 km south of Hanoi.