VOV.VN - To meet this year’s GDP growth target of 6.5%, the growth rate during the remaining months of the year must climb to over 7%, posing a great challenge due to a range of complicated developments linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and a strong impact on growth leading locomotives.

VOV.VN - General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong has extended a congratulatory message to Dimitris Koutsoumpas.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Vo Van Thuong attended a round-table conference of Russia – ASEAN political parties on June 29 via a videoconference.

The Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the United Nations, World Trade Organisation (WTO), and other international organisations in Geneva has called on the Vietnamese community in Geneva and surrounding areas to support Vietnam's COVID-19 prevention and control fund.

Vietnam and Laos issued a 10-point joint statement on the occasion of an official friendship visit to Vietnam by Lao Party General Secretary and State President Thongloun Sisoulith, his wife, and a high-ranking delegation of the Lao Party and State from June 28-29.

VOV.VN - State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc welcomed Lao Party General Secretary and State President Thongloun Sisoulith in Hanoi on June 29, saying his Vietnam visit will help promote and deepen the close bond and trustful cooperation between the two countries.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s Hanoi capital will play host to the ninth ASEAN Competition Conference on December 1-2, the Secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN, has announced.

Regular international flights can be gradually resumed by the end of 2021 as the COVID-19 situation will improve in the second half of the year when vaccination is accelerated in Vietnam and in the world, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

Iron and steel exports to the European Union (EU) reached 713,000 tonnes in the first five months of this year, up five times year-on-year, reported the General Department of Customs.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has exported various kinds of tropical fruits to the European Union, but passion fruit and lychees are among items that are much sought after by EU consumers, according to the Import-Export Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.