(VOVWORLD) - President Tran Dai Quang held separate talks in Minsk on Tuesday with Vladimir Andreichenko, Chairman of the House of Representatives of Belarus’s National Assembly, and Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov as part of his visit to Belarus.

(VOVWORLD) - President Tran Dai Quang and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko co-chaired a Vietnam-Belarus economic workshop on Tuesday in Minsk.

(VOVWORLD) - A conference on “Strategies to develop the Vietnamese pharmaceutical industry, vision to 2035” was held by the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, the Ministry of Health, and Australian embassy in Hanoi, Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The 2nd Meeting of Speakers of Eurasian Countries’ Parliaments (MSEAP) was chaired by Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin and Korean National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun in Seoul on Tuesday. The meeting’s theme was “Promoting Inter-Parliamentary cooperation for Common Prosperity in the Eurasian Region.”

(VOVWORLD) - The UN envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura said on Tuesday he hopes the talks set to begin next week in Astana and the G20 Summit in Germany will create favorable conditions for the next round of talks in Geneva.

(VOVWORLD) - The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) held a ceremony on Koh Pich island in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to mark the 66th anniversary of its founding on June 28. The event brought together 2,000 CPP members from Phnom Penh and neighboring provinces.

(VOVWORLD) - A cooking festival was held by the Quang Tri Women’s Union on Tuesday in Cua Viet town, Quang Tri province, to celebrate Vietnamese Family Day, June 28.

(VOVWORLD) - The Petya ransomware, similar to the WannaCry virus which appeared last month, seems to have re-infected computer systems across Europe, causing damage in Ukraine, Russia, England, and India, a Swiss government information technology agency said on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Philippine government is sticking to its policy of no negotiating with the extremists allied with the Islamic State who overran Marawi City in the southern Philippines, presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella told reporters on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang and Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko signed a joint statement on developing comprehensively and intensively partnership between the two countries following talks in Minsk on Tuesday.