(VOV) -The Brazilian people will return for a second round of voting in Brazil’s presidential election, as none of the candidates gained a majority of votes in the first round.

(VOV) -The US Department of Commerce has decided to maintain anti-dumping tariffs on Vietnamese shrimp imports. 

(VOV) -The world media and scholars have repeatedly mentioned China’s ambition to occupy the East Sea with its plan to turn the Johnson South Reef (Gac Ma in Vietnamese) into an island and illegal expansion of a number of places in Vietnam’s Truong Sa archipelago.

(VOV) -The 35th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Association- AIPA-35- is being held in Vientiane, Laos from September 15 to 17. 

(VOV) -The US has commemorated the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The US-led fight against terrorism did not end after the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. 

(VOV) - Kang Sok-ju, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is on a working visit to several European countries – a trip seen as a sign of Pyongyang’s more active diplomacy. 

(VOV) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent Japan visit is said to lift bilateral relations to a new height and is considered a step towards the establishment of a new alliance in the region.

(VOV) - Sixty-nine years ago the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh launched a national uprising to wipe out feudalism, overthrow the French colonialists and establish the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the first worker-peasant state in Indochina.

(VOV) - Three years after the US withdrew its troops out of Iraq in December 2011, the country once again has plunged into violence due to the insurgence of jihadists of the Islamic State.

(VOV) -A dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteurs on human rights is an important cooperative activity between Vietnam and the UN’s Universal Periodic Review on human rights.