(VOVWORLD) - The World Bank has approved 72.5 million USD in additional financing to support infrastructure investments in Da Nang, an emerging city in central Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Europe must take its fate into its own hands faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien urged full enforcement of the Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco at a meeting in Hanoi on Sunday in response to World No Tobacco Day (May 31) and National No Tobacco Week.

(VOVWORLD) - A Swedish satire called “The Square”, directed by Ruben Ostlund, won the Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes film festival on Sunday. It was a rare and somewhat surprising win for a comedy.

(VOVWORLD) - British intelligence officers have identified 23,000 jihadist extremists living in Britain as potential terrorist attackers.

(VOVWORLD) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Monday which landed in the sea off its east coast, the South Korean army said. The missile is believed to be a Scud-class ballistic missile which flew about 450 km.

(VOVWORLD) -A ceremony to announce the National External Information Service Awards 2016 (Journalistic works and books) will take place on May 31, 2017 at Radio the Voice of Vietnam headquarters in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - The annual fruit festival opened in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on Saturday to promote consumption of local safe fruits.

(VOVWORLD) - UK police have released security camera images of bomber Salman Abedi from the evening of his attack, which killed 22 people and wounded more than 100.

(VOVWORLD) - The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Friday attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt’s Minya district, which killed 29 people.