(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has hailed the statistics sector’s performance in 2017 but urged it to fully include the informal economic sector when calculating GDP.

(VOVWORLD) -Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has called for more donations to help children through the National Fund for Vietnamese Children.

(VOVWORLD) -A live TV program marked the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Spring General Offensive and Uprising was aired on Sunday night.

(VOVWORLD) -Soldiers of Naval Region 2 Command and journalists left Vung Tau province on Sunday for a journey to Truong Sa islands ahead of the Lunar New Year.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese football fans will be provided with free-of-charge transport from Shanghai’s Pudong international airport to the Changzhou Olympic Sports Centre to watch the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship semifinals match between Vietnam and Qatar on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - South Korea's imports of Vietnamese agricultural and livestock products jumped 34 percent two years after the two nations' bilateral free trade deal came into force.

(VOVWORLD) -The Pentagon’s deliveries of cutting-edge weapons, including man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS), to pro-American units have triggered Turkey’s military operation in north Syria, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with US Vice President Mike Pence in Cairo on Saturday where they discussed bilateral relations and regional issues, particularly the Palestinian situation and the recent US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

(VOVWORLD) -Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in cities around the US Saturday for the 2018 Women's March, a sequel to the 2017 Women's March, which protested President Donald Trump during his first full day in office.

(VOVWORLD) - Gunmen on Saturday attacked Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, seizing hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces as the building in the Afghan capital caught fire and residents and staff fled.