(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong arrived at Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Budapest on Saturday, beginning his official visit to Hungary at the invitation of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

(VOVWORLD) - Combined support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance and its partners, the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), has hit a record low for any such "grand coalition" government.

(VOVWORLD) - Britain believes an orderly, agreed exit from the European Union is still the most likely outcome but time is running out and a deal should be done by November at the latest, cabinet office minister David Lidington said on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Binh Duong-based Vietnamese–German University (VGU) celebrated its 10th founding anniversary at a ceremony on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, held consultations with the Republic of Korea's top national security adviser Chung Eui-Yong on Saturday in Beijing.

(VOVWORLD) - China’s politically charged trade surplus with the United States widened to a record 31.05 billion USD in August, compared with 28.09 billion USD in July, customs data showed on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - The finance ministers of EU member states on Saturday held talks on a proposed tax on large digital companies with several believing agreement could be reached before year end.

(VOVWORLD) -Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong says that the Communist Party of Vietnam treasures the traditional friendship with the Communist Party of Russia, calling on the Party to continue its support for Vietnam’s national construction and defense.

(VOVWORLD) - Ambassadors of the two Koreas on Thursday sent a letter to Secretary General Antonio Guterres and General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak, requesting that they circulate the “Panmunjom Declaration on Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula” as an official UN document, North Korea’s UN Mission reported on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - US Defense Secretary James Mattis met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani during an unannounced visit to Kabul on Friday to discuss prospects for peace talks with the Taliban and deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan.