(VOVWorld) – A World Bank report released on Monday showed Vietnam is rapidly urbanizing in terms of urban areas and population. Analyzed in a report titled “East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth”,

(VOVworld) - About 15,000 blood units are expected to be collected at the 7th blood donation campaign, “Red Sunday”, held on Sunday in Hanoi.

(VOVworld) – The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) reviewed its performance in 2014 and discussed plans for this year. VOV President Nguyen Dang Tien said despite difficulties VOV in 2014 managed to fulfill the tasks assigned by the Party and state to meet people’s information needs.

(VOVworld) – People-to-people diplomacy played a key role in national construction and defense in 2014, especially in protecting Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea, said chairman of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations Vu Xuan Hong.

(VOVworld) – More than 70,000 USD was raised and hundreds of sets of gifts donated in Da Nang on Tuesday for Agent Orange/Dioxin victims to mark the coming Tet (Lunar New Year) festival.

(VOVworld) – The Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) will take place from January 19-23 in Singapore.

(VOVworld)- Enhancing Vietnam-China friendship and cooperation for peace, stability and development is the main theme of an article Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh wrote on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Vietnam-China diplomatic ties.

(VOVworld) - A delegation of foreign journalists held talk with their Vietnamese counterparts on Friday in Hanoi on issues related to media coverage of health care after their field trip to some medical units in Vietnam and the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

(VOVworld) – Vietnamese leaders will take part in major UN events this year. Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN told the Vietnam News Agency on Wednesday that this aims to show Vietnam’s commitment to greater contributions to international efforts to maintain world peace and security and address common global challenges.

(VOVworld) – Vietnam has launched a national plan of action in response to the UN’s Zero Hunger Challenge. At the launch ceremony in Hanoi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the right to food is a basic human right and that despite major achievements in global food production, food and nutrition insecurity and poverty still remain a challenge.