(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a working session with the Presidium of the Union of Literature and Arts Associations in Hanoi on Friday to address the Union’s recommendations .

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has called agencies and localities to popularize skills on disaster response to the people.

(VOVWORLD) - Defense Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich will pay an official visit to the US, starting next Monday, at the invitation of the US Secretary of Defense, James Mattis.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ho Chi Minh City Music Summer Camp 2017 kicked off on Wednesday with piano, guitar, chamber music, jazz, and contemporary dance classes taught by professional Vietnamese artists and artists from Germany, the US, Sweden, South Korea, and Singapore.

(VOVWORLD) - The first ethnic culture and sports festival for people in the northeastern region opened on Thursday in Tien Yen district in Quang Ninh.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged that drastic and coordinated action be taken to achieve this year’s set targets, improve the business climate, and build a constructive and service-oriented administrative system.

(VOVWORLD) - The US will not negotiate with North Korea without a Pyongyang commitment to denuclearization, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert told a press conference on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that his government has done more than all its predecessors to boost Jewish settlement.

(VOVWORLD) - Bank of England governor Mark Carney said financial regulation in the UK should remain “at least as high as it currently is” to avoid risks to the economy from a financial sector that could double in size within 25 years.

(VOVWORLD) - Kremlin spokesman Dimitry Peskov said Thursday that the US can and should influence Ukraine to abide by the Minsk agreement even though the US is not a member of the Normandy Four.