(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly’s Friday discussions on the implementation of Vietnam’s socio-economic tasks for 2017 and 2018 have drawn voters’ attention.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is willing to help improve the training quality of Lao officials and students and will allocate more funding to make it work more effectively, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

(VOVWORLD) - The Meet Europe 2018 conference opened in Hanoi on Friday to enhance cooperation between Vietnamese localities and European partners.

(VOVWORLD) - Cuban search teams have retrieved the flight data recorder from the passenger plane that crashed last Friday, killing 111 people on board, Cuban state-run television announced Thursday evening.

(VOVWORLD) - Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tien Dung said the Vietnamese Government always creates favorable conditions for foreign businesses, including those from the Republic of Korea, to invest and expand operations in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Lawmakers are reviewing socio-economic development performance in 2017 and the first months of 2018.

(VOVWORLD) - An exhibition was held on Thursday in Hanoi to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Azerbaijan’s National Day (May 28).

(VOVWORLD) - The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday that Russia’s military had nothing to do with the downing of Malaysia’s MH17 airplane in 2014, Russia’s TASS news agency reported, adding that no missile crossed the Russia-Ukraine border.

(VOVWORLD) - North Korea’s Central News Agency on Friday quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan as saying that North Korea is ready to talk with the US at any time.

(VOVWORLD) -US President Donald Trump on Thursday sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, canceling their highly anticipated summit scheduled for June 12 in Singapore. Mr. Trump dictated the entire letter, according to a senior administration official. The following is the text of the letter.