(VOVWORLD) - Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron met with visiting Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Sunday to discuss ways to strengthen the EU.

(VOVWORLD) -President Tran Dai Quang has called for greater efforts to bring trade value between Vietnam and Indonesia to 10 billion USD by 2018.

(VOVWORLD) -Former South Korean leader Park Geun Hye is due to go on trial on Tuesday over the corruption scandal that brought her down.

(VOVWORLD) -As the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival gets under way, Vietnam is hoping to generate interest among filmmakers and production companies from around the world in its push to become a new destination for blockbusters.

(VOVWORLD) -Fitch Ratings has revised the outlook on Vietnam’s long-term foreign- and local-currency issuer default ratings (IDR) to ‘Positive’ from ‘Stable’ and affirmed the ratings at ‘BB’.

(VOVWORLD) -The next session of the 14th National Assembly will open on Monday in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) -A ceremony themed “Vietnam Glory-Imprints of 30 years of renewal" was hosted by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor in Hanoi on Saturday with the attendance of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

(VOVWORLD) -Senior officials from signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) met on the sidelines of the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade in Hanoi on Sunday to discuss the future of the ambitious trade pact.

(VOVWORLD) -Argentinean newspapers have printed President Ho Chi Minh's “Prison diary” and praised his revolutionary thoughts in Vietnam’s national liberation.

(VOVWORLD) -President Hassan Rouhani has won re-election by handing an emphatic defeat to his hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi.