(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said the Republic of Korean businesses, particularly Samsung, have been the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam over the years.

(VOVWORLD) -Head of the Party Central Committee’s Organization Commission Pham Minh Chinh said he hopes Truong Quang Nghia, the newly-appointed Secretary of Da Nang Party Committee, will continue to uphold the achievements made by his predecessors to build Da Nang into a dynamic and creative city with rapid and sustainable development.

(VOVWORLD) - A China-US joint statement says that Beijing and Washington will closely cooperate in counter-narcotics, cyber security, and repatriation.

(VOVWORLD) - Heads of the Catalan government continues to boost its plans to unilaterally declare independence from Spain.

(VOVWORLD) - The German government has significantly raised its growth forecast for 2017 from 1.5 to 1.9% and for 2018 from 1.6% to 2% based on positive figures from its economy, the Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) -The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced that the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

(VOVWORLD) -Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired the 6th plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee on Friday, the 3rd day of meeting.

(VOVWORLD) - The first Vietnamese Tra fish and seafood product fair has opened in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - Thua Thien-Hue province has welcomed 2.78 million visitors so far this year, more than 1 million of them being foreigners.

(VOVWORLD) -Electricity Vietnam (EVN) and the World Bank (WB) convened on Friday for a joint technical discussion to highlight the important role of gender equality.