(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is aiming to export 6.5 million tonnes of rice in 2018. This year, the country continues to increase the proportion of high-quality rice in the total rice export volume.

(VOVWORLD) -NA deputies on Monday discussed the implementation of laws and policies on using and managing state resources in enterprises and the equitization of state-owned enterprises from 2011 to 2016.

(VOVWORLD) - Defense Secretary James Mattis said that the US wants to strengthen cooperation with Vietnam in defense, search and rescue efforts, relief aid, maritime security, peacekeeping, and recovery from war consequences.

(VOVWORLD) -Ho Chi Minh City held a festival on Sunday to celebrate Lord Buddha’s birthday.

(VOVWORLD) -Most Venerable Thich Duc Thien, Vice President and Secretary General of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, was awarded the Padma Shri – India’s top civilian award – at a ceremony in Hanoi on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and 19 other countries promoted their traditional culture at the 20th Festival of Ethnic Groups in the Czech Republic in Prague from last Thursday to Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) -Cueist Tran Quyet Chien has become the new champion of the 2018 Three-Cushion Carom Billiards World Cup, which concluded in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) -A Vietnamese military delegation led by Defense Minister Ngo Xuan Lich will attend the 17th Asia Security Summit or Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore from May 31 to June 3.

(VOVWORLD) - US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Sunday that a US delegation is meeting with North Korean officials in Panmunjom, at the border between North and South Korea, about a possible US-North Korea summit.

(VOVWORLD) - Cuba's Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM) has identified the remains of all the victims of the recent plane crash near Havana's Jose Marti International Airport.