(VOVWORLD) -China on Sunday celebrated its 68th National Day. More than 110,000 people gathered at Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing to watch the raising of the national flag.

(VOVWORLD) -300 disadvantaged children received gifts from a program jointly held by the Vietnam Television and the Ho Chi Minh Youth Union in Hanoi on Sunday night on the occasion of Mid-autumn festival.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has ordered the active preparations to make sure that activities of the APEC Summit Week slated for early November will run smoothly.

(VOVWORLD) -A military delegation of Vietnam led by Minister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich began an official visit to Myanmar on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam Fatherland Front President Tran Thanh Man and Can Tho city’s National Assembly deputies met local voters in Thot Not district on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) -The spectacular Tuyen citadel festival which opened on Saturday night in Tuyen Quang city, featured 60 colorful lanterns and art performance by children.

(VOVWORLD) -Nearly 1,000 artists, artisans, and athletes took part in the first Dao ethnic culture festival on Friday and Saturday in Tuyen Quang province.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue met voters in Huong Son and Nghi Xuan district of Ha Tinh province on Saturday and Sunday ahead of the 4th session of the 14th National Assembly.

(VOVWORLD) -A badminton competition for the elderly has opened in Thai Nguyen province to mark the International Day of Older Persons on October 1.

(VOVWORLD) - State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Saturday that US diplomats do have open channels for communicating with North Korea, but Pyongyang is showing no signs they are ready for talks about denuclearization.