(VOVWORLD) - Domestic issues were given priority in this year’s annual address to the Federal Assembly that Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered on Wednesday. The Address summed up the first year of his 4th presidential tenure, during which he vowed to create breakthroughs to make Russia powerful again.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam takes Argentina as its most important partner in Latin America and hopes to consolidate and strengthen its comprehensive partnership with the country, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

(VOVWORLD) -Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong will pay an official friendly visit to Laos from February 24-25, and a state visit to Cambodia from February 25-26.

(VOVWORLD) - Cau Ngu (whale worship) Festival, often held on the 16th day of the first lunar month in Da Nang city, was recognized a national intangible cultural heritage at a ceremony held in Thanh Khe district on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) -The General Statistics Office (GSO) is to launch a project on unobserved economy statistics which will serve as an important reference for the statistics sector to refine its expertise up to international practices.

(VOVWORLD) - The 4th International Conference on Promoting Vietnamese Literature, the 17th Vietnam Poetry Day and the 3rd International Poetry Festival, concluded on Wednesday evening in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - The 2019 Japan Cherry Blossom Festival will take place at Ly Thai To Park in downtown Hanoi in late March.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has praised the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea’s contribution to bilateral strategic cooperative partnership.

(VOVWORLD) -Party General Secretary and President of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong has told President of Argentina Mauricio Macri that Vietnam always respects and wants to enhance the bilateral comprehensive partnership, especially in economy, trade and investment.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has chaired a meeting to review the preparation for the second summit between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the US in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi.