(VOVWORLD) - Priority should be given to ironing out difficulties for businesses and ensuring their sustainable development to achieve the goal of making Vietnam a developed country with high income within the next 2 decades and building a green, inclusive, and sustainable economy, said Party General Secretary and President To Lam on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, leading a high-level delegation of Vietnam, participated in the 19th East Asia Summit (EAS) and 14th ASEAN-United Nations Summit in Vientiane on Friday, the final day of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and related events.

(VOVWORLD) - Economic-trade-investment collaboration needs to be bolstered effectively, harmoniously, and sustainably as the focal point and the driving force in order to promote ASEAN-US relations, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at the 12th ASEAN-US Summit in Vientiane, Laos on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - HSBC has lifted its 2024 GDP growth forecast for Vietnam to 7% from 6.5% after the country recorded stronger-than-expected growth in Q3 despite the devastation left by typhoon Yagi.

(VOVWORLD) - 32 countries have confirmed their participation at the BRICS summit in Russia's city of Kazan on October 22-24, said Russian Presidential aide Yury Ushakov on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Assa Abloy Group, a Swedish leader in entrance automation and door opening and control, inaugurated its 30 million USD factory in Hai Phong city on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Israeli forces fired at a watchtower used by UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, injuring two, a UN source said, the third day in a row peacekeepers have reported Israeli fire at their positions as Israel intensifies its military operation against Hezbollah.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had separate meetings with Australian, Japanese, Indonesian, and Indian leaders in Vientiane, Laos, on Friday, on the sidelines of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and related summits.

(VOVWORLD) - NATO will begin its annual nuclear exercise on Monday, alliance Secretary General Mark Rutte said Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - US Vice President Kamala Harris is leading former President Donald Trump by 4 points among likely voters, according to an Economist/YouGov poll released Thursday.