VOV.VN - Vietnam’s No. 1 chess player Le Quang Liem has cruised into the third round of the 2023 FIDE World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, after clinching an overwhelming victory over Ivan Ivanisevic (Serbia) in a tiebreak on August 4 evening (local time).

VOV.VN - A business delegation from Azerbaijan joined a business-to-business (B2B) trade exchange alongside Vietnamese enterprises in Hanoi on May 9 to seek investment opportunities in the country.

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc received the Ambassadors of Azerbaijan and Brunei on December 1 at the Presidential Palace, with both diplomats coming to present their letters of credence.

VOV.VN - A Vietnam Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Baku Heydar Aliyev airport in Azerbaijan on October 6 as a German passenger got sick and needed an emergency service.

VOV.VN - Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on July 19 received Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur Mammadov who was in Hanoi for the second political consultation between the two Foreign Ministries.

VOV.VN - State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc received outgoing ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Azerbaijan who came to bid farewell to the President, in Hanoi on June 23.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia will continue to work alongside Russian relevant agencies to safely receive Vietnamese citizens fleeing to Russia from eastern Ukraine, according to Counsellor Nguyen Tung Lam.

Deputy Auditor General of the State Audit Office of Vietnam Dang The Vinh was elected President of the Vietnam-Azerbaijan Friendship Association (VAFA) for the 2021-2026 tenure during the association's second national conference in Hanoi on December 30.

VOV.VN - A total of 4.75 tonnes of Russian ice cream have arrived in the country after being shipped from Novosibirsk province, according to the press office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) of Novosibirsk region.

Vietnam ranked third globally in terms of economic optimism in a survey recently conducted by Gallup International, behind Nigeria and Azerbaijan.