(VOVWORLD) - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday called for the adoption of a new UN sanctions resolution in response to North Korea’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test.

(VOVWORLD) - A grand meeting took place in Vientiane on Tuesday to mark the 55th anniversary of Vietnam-Laos diplomatic ties and 40th anniversary of the Vietnam-Laos Treaty on Amity and Cooperation.

(VOVWORLD) - Minister and Head of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung has asked the State Bank and other commercial banks to offer solutions to achieve a GDP growth of 7.42% for the second half and 6.7% for the whole 2017.

(VOVWORLD) - The 4th Laos-Vietnam Friendship Festival opened on Monday in Vientiane, marking the 55th anniversary of Lao-Vietnamese diplomatic relations.

(VOVWORLD) - The Steering Committee for the Central Highlands on Monday organized a meeting to celebrate its 15th anniversary and receive the first-class Labor Order.

(VOVWORLD) - Acting President of the South Korean Red Cross Kim Sun-hyang on Monday proposed that North Korea agree to an Inter-Korean Red Cross meeting on October 4, on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival and 10 years since the signing of the Inter-Korean joint communiqué to discuss a program on family reunions.

(VOVWORLD) - At least 8 people were killed and 15 wounded on Monday at a mosque in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria.

(VOVWORLD) - The European Union has adopted limits on the export of inflatable boats to Libya to make it harder for smugglers to send refugees and migrants to Europe.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam met with Bac Kan province’s revolutionary contributors in Hanoi on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam on Monday hosted an international seminar on applying information technology to poverty eradication on the sidelines of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) high-level political forum in New York.