VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 7 made an inspection trip to the Nhon – Hanoi Station urban rail line in the capital to help remove obstacles for the project.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son attended the 29th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) that took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on August 5 within the framework of the 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-55), and held several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the event. ​

While many products exported to the UK enjoyed strong increases thanks to the UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA), Vietnam’s timber industry is facing difficulties in expanding in this market, requiring manufacturers and exporters to change their business strategies.

VOV.VN - National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced that it will adjust flight paths between Vietnam and Northeast Asia, including Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan (China) from August 4 to avoid areas near the Taiwan Strait where China plans to hold military exercises.

VOV.VN - The first seven months of 2022 saw Vietnam export nearly 4.2 million tons of rice, up more than 20% over the same period last year, in which the US market increased the most with more than 65%.

Vietnam always supports the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ha Kim Ngoc told a panel discussion themed “Nonproliferation, Nuclear Energy, and Climate Change” chaired by US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm in New York on August 2.

The Partnership for Higher Education Reform (PHER), which involves some Vietnamese and US universities, was launched on August 1 with a view to improving the academic quality, governance, and market relevance of Vietnam’s higher education institutions.

VOV.VN - The United States, through US Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a US$14.2 million partnership with three leading Vietnamese universities on August 1.

The recent fluctuations in the US dollar and Japanese yen have both positive and negative impacts on Vietnamese traders, according to experts of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

First litchi fruits of northern Hai Duong and Bac Giang provinces have been shipped by sea to the US to be sold at Safeway and Albersons - two supermarket chains with the largest network on the West Coast of the US.