Ambassador Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN and President-designate of the 11th Review Conference (RevCon 11) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), chaired a consultation for Middle East, North Africa (MENA) member states of the treaty in Jordan, from January 7–8.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam reaffirmed Vietnam’s commitment to deepening its comprehensive strategic partnership with the United States, during his reception for outgoing US Ambassador Marc Knapper in Hanoi on January 9.

VOV.VN - Vietnam on January 9 inaugurated a new training and capacity-building centre for the country’s United Nations (UN) peacekeeping police in Hung Yen province.

VOV.VN - A special film screening programme featuring works of Vietnam’s revolutionary cinema will run from January 14 to 17 at Ngoc Khanh Cinema in Hanoi to celebrate the 14th National Party Congress.

VOV.VN - Venezuelan media outlets have shown strong interest in Vietnam’s upcoming 14th National Congress of the Communist Party, as the Southeast Asian nation prepares to outline its development directions for the coming decades.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s government has been credited by lawmakers with steering the country through an unusually turbulent five-year term, citing flexible governance, resilience and a series of socio-economic achievements recorded amid global and domestic headwinds.

The Agency of Foreign Trade (AFT) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade aims to increase total export turnover by more than 8% in 2026 compared with 2025, while maintaining a trade surplus of over US$23 billion, up 15% year on year.

VOV.VN - Sub-zero temperatures and frost were recorded in western Nghe An province early on January 9, extending severe cold conditions beyond northern Vietnam into parts of the central region, as a strong cold air mass continued to dominate much of the country.

VOV.VN - Air pollution intensified and spread across northern Vietnam on January 9, with Hanoi, Hung Yen, Hai Phong and Thai Nguyen recording poor to very poor air quality levels, according to official monitoring data.

VOV.VN - Vietnam will look to build on their opening-match victory when they take on Kyrgyzstan in their second Group A match at the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2026 on January 9.