VOV.VN - The European Commission (EC) has been compiling a dossier to monitor the level of 2-chloroethanol residues in rice paper products, phở (dried noddles), and bún (vermicelli noodles) imported from the Vietnamese market, according to the Vietnamese Trade Office in Belgium and the EU.

VOV.VN - The Asian Records Organisation (ARO) announced a further nine Vietnamese culinary specialties as part of its latest Asian Records listings, according to the Vietnam Records Organisation (VietKings).

The relationship between Vietnam and France has been thriving, and the two countries have become accompanying, reliable partners of each other, Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang has affirmed in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic ties and 10 years of the strategic partnership.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Vu Quang Minh held a working session on April 11 with a delegation of interns from the German Foreign Ministry to compare notes on the nation’s external policies.

A scholar from the International Relations Institute under the Royal Academy of Cambodia has spoken highly of the Vietnamese Party and State’s attention to and policy on overseas Vietnamese (OVs), the community’s contributions to the homeland, as well as their growing role in host countries.

VOV.VN - Vietnam will take part in the 2023 Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Championship which is scheduled to take place from April 25 to May 2 in the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

VOV.VN - The official visit to Laos on April 10-11 by State President Vo Van Thuong has achieved positive results, according to Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son.

VOV.VN - State president Vo Van Thuong on April 11 received former Lao leaders, including former General Secretary and President Choummaly Sayasone, former General Secretary and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith and former Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, during his visit to Laos.

The UK's accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will complement the existing UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) and help upgrade the bilateral relations thanks to additional preferential tariffs, Kemi Badenoch, Secretary of State for the Department for Business and Trade of the UK, reportedly said.

More than 200 streets and landmarks in Vietnam and France that carry imprints of history of the relations between the two countries have been spotlighted in a book titled “Dau an Phap-Viet qua ten nhung con duong (French-Vietnamese imprints through the names of roads) by overseas Vietnamese writer Tran Thu Dung.