The V-League is seeing a surge in the number of overseas Vietnamese players, a development that not only adds diversity to the league but also provides Coach Kim Sang Sik with exciting new options for the Vietnam national team.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam, his spouse, and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam visited the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing on August 18 evening and met with its staff, representatives of the Vietnamese community, and Vietnamese students in China.

The Vu Lan Festival was held at Phat Tich pagoda in Vientiane on the morning of August 18, with the attendance of representatives from the Vietnamese Embassy, associations of Vietnamese in Laos, and a large number of Vietnamese and Lao Buddhist monks, nuns, and followers.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and President To Lam on August 18 afternoon left Guangzhoul for Beijing where he is scheduled to hold top-level talks and meetings with senior Chinese leaders in the coming two days.

Vietnam's personnel service provider GEDU International GmbH and Infineon Technologies Dresden, Germany's largest semiconductor chip company, have recently signed a letter of intent on cooperation in recruiting young Vietnamese talents for both Infineon's dual training and direct recruitment programmes.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and President To Lam suggested that Guangdong of China increase exchanges and cooperation with Vietnamese localities for win-win approach, during his meeting with Huang Kunming, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on August 18.

VOV.VN - Chinese media outlets have run wide coverage of the ongoing state visit to China by Vietnamese General Secretary and President To Lam at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

VOV.VN - The Nigeria Customs Service has announced the implementation of a 0% import tax rate and exemption of value-added tax (VAT) on a number of food items imported into Nigeria, including those from Vietnam, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Nigeria.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national women's football team will train in Europe from September 1 to 15 as they strive to secure a spot at the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup finals.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivered a keynote speech at the inauguration of the third Voice of Global South Summit (VOGSS 2024) which was held virtually on August 17 in India, focusing on the need to boost all-round co-operation among countries in the Global South to address global challenges.