(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese and Lao Prime Ministers have joined Lunar New Year celebrations with the Vietnamese community in Laos.

(VOVWORLD) -North Korea’s parliamentary leader Kim Yong Nam will go to Pyeongchang this week for the winter Olympics.

(VOVWORLD) -German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has urged Europe to push for nuclear disarmament by starting new initiatives for arms control after the US announced its intention to upgrade and expand its nuclear arsenal.

(VOVWORLD) -France and Turkey plan to develop a “diplomatic road map” to end the war in Syria, President Emmanuel Macron’s office said on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam and Laos agreed to increase bilateral trade by 10% this year during the 40th meeting of their Inter-Governmental Committee in Vientiane, Laos, on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam U23 football team, who finished second at last month’s AFC U23 Championship and creates an a football fever in Vietnam, met their fans in Ho Chi Minh city on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - China opposes the US’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) 2018 which named China as its potential nuclear opponent, calling for Washington to reduce its nuclear arsenals.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian air forces conducted a high-precision group strike in the area controlled by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham militants in Idlib, from where a missile that downed Russian Su-25 aircraft was launched, Sputnik news agency reported.

(VOVWORLD) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will ask the US and South Korea to conduct a planned joint military drill without scaling it down to keep pressuring North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile development, Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Syrian foreign ministry on Saturday denied US allegations that it had used chemical weapons against rebel-held Eastern Ghouta enclave near Damascus, saying the accusations were “lies” without evidence.