VOV.VN - Talks were held between Vietnamese President To Lam and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on June 20 in Hanoi following a welcome ceremony held for the top Russian leader on the same day.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam National Museum of History received the four-armed goddess Durga statue on June 18, with the stolen seventh-century bronze piece being returned to Vietnam by the UK.

VOV.VN - The Consular Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a ceremony on June 19 to recognise Bui Quang Minh, a famous businessman in the Vietnamese startup community, as Honorary Consul of Slovenia in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Despite a bright economic outlook for this year, Vietnamese GDP growth is unlikely to achieve the target of 6.5% set by the National Assembly (NA) due to internal and external impacts, said Nguyen Quoc Viet, deputy director of the Vietnam Institute for Economics and Policy Research (VEPR).

VOV.VN - A total of 13 Vietnamese enterprises joined 60 startup and innovation firms from Japan and the five ASEAN member states of Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, and Thailand to attend the Japan-ASEAN Startup Business Matching Fair 2024 held on June 19 in Bangkok, Thailand.

There is ample room to promote trade between Vietnam and Russia’s Far East, head of the Vietnam Trade Office Branch in the Far East region Nguyen Hong Thanh said in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) ahead of the state visit to Vietnam by President Vladimir Putin.

VOV.VN - A memorial and burial service for the remains of 12 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who sacrificed their lives in Laos was held on June 19 at Tong Khao martyr cemetery in Thanh Nua commune in northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

VOV.VN - "Tình mẫu tử" (Maternity ward), a painting on silk produced by late artist Le Pho, was sold for EUR400,000 at an auction sale “Vente duplex so unique” held on June 18 at Millon house in France.

A Vietnamese food festival is taking place in Hong Kong (China) from June 12 to July 14 to promote the Vietnamese cuisine.

VOV.VN - Coach Nguyen Dinh Hoang has called up 15 female futsal footballers to the team’s first training session in Hanoi to prepare for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup hosted by the Philippines for the first time.