VOV.VN - Venezuelan media on July 1 ran prominent coverage of Vietnam’s major shift in institutional reform, following the official launch of the two-tier local government model and the administrative boundary restructuring aimed at streamlining, improving effectiveness, and enhancing efficiency.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has climbed one spot to rank 38th in the 2025 Global Peace Index (GPI), with an overall score of 1.721, making it one of the more peaceful countries globally.

VOV.VN - A high-level Vietnamese delegation led by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh left Shanghai on June 26 evening, concluding a three-day working visit to China, where he also attended the 16th Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Tianjin.

Vietnam is experiencing a 38% increase in overweight and obesity rates, placing it among the Southeast Asian nations with the fastest-growing rates, according to Associate Professor Nguyen Anh Tuan, director of the digestive surgery department at Central Military Hospital 108.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held a working session with representatives of nuclear science and engineering (NSE) division in the Physics Department at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) of Sweden on June 13, while calling on the Swedish side to set up cooperation with Vietnam in nuclear energy technology.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh dropped in on the Karolinska Institute, one of the world’s leading medical education and research institutions, in Stockholm on June 13 as part of his official visit to Sweden.

VOV.VN - Authorised by the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang presented a draft resolution of the National Assembly on the establishment of an international financial centre in Vietnam, at the ongoing 9th session of the legislature.

The National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), with support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and the World Health Organisation (WHO), hosted a forum in Hanoi on June 7 to celebrate World Food Safety Day under the theme “Food Safety: Science in Action”.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam emphasised the urgent need to review and remove institutional ‘bottlenecks’ hindering the country’s breakthrough development, at the first meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Institutional and Legal Reforms in Hanoi on June 5.

VOV.VN - Vietnam can fully realise its goal of becoming a high-income country by 2045, provided it stays committed to pursuing two strategic drivers - institutional reform and green development, according to the World Bank (WB).