(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited primary and secondary schools in Ky Nam commune in Ha Tinh province on Saturday which were heavily affected by Storm Doksuri.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnam Red Cross Sponsor Council made its debut on Friday with 30 members participating.

(VOVWORLD) - The British metropolitan police on Friday warned people to stay away from Parsons Green station in west London following an explosion on a underground train.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly Standing Committee discussed reports by the government, the Supreme People’s Procuracy and Supreme People’s Court on the settlement of complaints and denunciations this year.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia women’s forum opened on Friday in Ho Chi Minh City to promote friendship and cooperation and realize their Sustainable Development Goals until 2030.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted important contribution by small and medium sized enterprises to Vietnam’s economy at the 24th APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Representatives of 10 AIPA members, 11 observing countries, the ASEAN Secretariat, and the Inter-parliamentary Union gathered in Manila, the Philippines, on Friday for a meeting of the executive committee of the 38th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-38).

(VOVWORLD) - Storm Doksuri has killed 5 people and injured dozens of others in Vietnam's central region. The storm made landfall in Ha Tinh province on Friday, causing heavy rains, strong winds, and sea water level rise to between 2 and 3 meters. Many trees and electric poles in Ky Anh town fell; and billboards and sheet-metal roofs were swept dozens of meters away. The typhoon also blew off the roofs of many private homes and schools.

(VOVWORLD) -Nguyen Van Binh, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission praised the active contributions by Bernd Lange, Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, to developing Vietnam-EU trade and investment ties and concluding talks on bilateral free trade agreement.

(VOVWORLD) - The UN Security Council will organize an emergency meeting on Friday evening over North Korea’s latest missile test. The meeting was requested by Japan and the US.