(VOVWORLD) -The National Assembly on Tuesday passed the revised Penal Code with a highlight being ages subject to penal liability.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked Haiti to facilitate cooperation between Vietnam’s military-run telecoms group Viettel and Teleco S.A of Haiti saying it is a role model in bilateral economic partnership.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam aims to increase nationwide forest coverage to 42% by 2020, according to the target program on sustainable forest development from until 2020 recently approved by the Prime Minister.

(VOVWORLD) - Qatar's Foreign Minister on Monday called on neighboring states to lift their blockade of Qatar before Doha takes part in any negotiations on ending the Gulf diplomatic crisis.

(VOVWORLD) - Activities have been organized nationwide to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of Vietnam's Revolutionary Press Day on June 21.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese culture and customs are being introduced in Prague as part of a project called “Foreigners in the Czech Republic and their cultures”.

(VOVWORLD) - A car struck a police van before bursting into flames on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Monday, said police officials.

(VOVWORLD) - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has said that Cuba maintains its willingness to continue a respectful dialogue and cooperation with the US, and to negotiate pending bilateral issues.

(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and President of the Senate of Haiti Youri Latortue have agreed to soon establish a friendship parliamentary group and step up bilateral legislative ties.

(VOVWORLD) - The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that Russia will stop all interactions with the US under the framework on the "memorandum of incident prevention in Syrian skies", after a Syrian Su-22 was downed by a US-led coalition.