[VOVWORLD] - Party General Secretary and State President To Lam will pay an official visit to Thailand from next Wednesday to Friday at the invitation of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. 

[VOVWORLD] - Vietnam highly values and is ready to create favorable conditions for US technology corporations to invest in the country on the basis of harmonious interests, Party General Secretary and State President To Lam said at a reception in Hanoi on Friday for David Zapolsky, Senior Vice President and Chief Global Affairs and Legal Officer at Amazon.

[VOVWORLD] - Palestinian Ambassador Saadi Salama, on behalf of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, has presented the State of Palestine’s Star of Merit Order to former Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh, recognizing her outstanding contributions to Vietnam’s revolutionary diplomacy and her longstanding support for the Palestinian people.

[VOVWORLD] - May 22 marks the 80th anniversary of Vietnam’s Traditional Day for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Hoang Hiep stressed the importance of community participation in disaster preparedness and response.

[VOVWORLD] - Vietnam has urgently rolled out monitoring and prevention measures to proactively respond to the risk of Ebola entering the country, the Ministry of Health said at an online meeting on Friday.

[VOVWORLD] - Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said on Friday that Vietnam is deeply concerned about legal action taken by the US Department of Justice in issuing criminal charges against former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and former President of the Council of Ministers, Raúl Castro.

[VOVWORLD] - Vietnam’s total import and export turnover in the first half of May was 47.7 billion USD, according to the Vietnam Customs.

[VOVWORLD] - The Da Nang Food Tour 2026 opened at East Sea Park on Thursday, marking the first time Da Nang has organized a large-scale culinary tourism festival aimed at turning local cuisine into a strategic tourism product.

[VOVWORLD] - Vietnam and Russia have agreed to effectively implement existing cooperation agreements while exchanging and signing new documents in line with the needs of both sides.

[VOVWORLD] - The European Commission has revised down the EU’s GDP growth forecast for the coming years, citing inflation pressures from the Middle East conflict, according to the Spring 2026 Economic Forecast.