(VOVWORLD) - Young talents with the most outstanding research projects or solutions in science and technology were honored with the Golden Globe Awards 2018 at a ceremony held in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has become a key trade partner of Russia in Southeast Asia, which is proved through the results of the two countries’ economy-trade cooperation in 2018, Russian news agency TASS quoted Vyacheslav Kharinov, Chief Representative of the Russian Trade Office in Vietnam, as saying.

(VOVWORLD) - Global Affairs Canada spokesman Richard Walker said Friday that a Canadian citizen detained in China this month has returned to Canada after being released from custody.

(VOVWORLD) - The French President and German Chancellor in a joint statament on Friday called for a solid, full, and permanent ceasefire in Ukraine's eastern region.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnam Leather, Footwear, and Handbag Association (LEFASO) says Vietnam’s total turnover of footwear exports in 2018 is estimated to be 19.5 billion USD.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent condolences to the families of the victims of the bomb attack, which killed 3 Vietnamese tourists in Egypt on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - 3 Vietnamese tourists were killed and 12 others injured when a roadside bomb blast hit their tour bus in Egypt on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) -National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines said it will add 27,000 seats on domestic flights to meet an increasing demand during the 2019 New Year holiday from December 28 to January 2.

(VOVWORLD) -Politburo member and Head of the Party Central Committee’s Education and Communications Commission Vo Van Thuong has praised the media’s achievements in 2018 and called for more efforts to maintain the media’s vanguard role in communicating Vietnam’s renewal, protecting the Party ideological foundations, and strengthening unity among cadres and Party members and people’s trust.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh authorities on Friday awarded prizes to 6 packages of ICT products to be applied in developing smart cities.