(VOVWORLD) - A seminar on ways to turn science and technology into a driving force for the Fourth Industrial Revolution took place in Hanoi on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Bolivia wants to expand bilateral relations with Vietnam, especially economic ties, Bolivian President Evo Morales told newly-appointed Vietnamese Ambassador to Brazil and Bolivia Do Ba Khoa.

(VOVWORLD) - The Office of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the Consulate General of the UK in the city on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in implementing the future global city program, which aims to turn HCMC into a smart city by 2022.

(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi will organize a number of cultural and artistic activities to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, which runs from February 5-7.

(VOVWORLD) - Four tourists from Sweden and Finland were still missing on Thursday, a day after they were feared to have been swept away by an avalanche in Arctic Norway, police said.

(VOVWORLD) - The United States and China will hold the face-to-face talks in Beijing next Monday and Tuesday, a communique of Chinese Commerce Ministry said Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Israeli paramilitary police on Thursday evacuated dozens of Jewish settlers out of an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank and said at least 5 officers were injured by stones thrown by the settlers.

(VOVWORLD) - Rodong Sinmun, North Korea's main newspaper, lashed out at the United States on Thursday for hampering inter-Korean relations, expressing frustrations over the limited progress in cross-border economic projects amid international sanctions.

(VOVWORLD) - Slovakia has assumed the presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from January 1 and will preside over the organization throughout 2019.

(VOVWORLD) - Delegates to a workshop on pricing forecast for this year held by the Academy of Finance warned that Vietnam's inflation is likely to increase this year .