VOV.VN - Speaker of the Indian Lok Sabha Om Birla and his delegation arrived in Hanoi on April 19, beginning their three-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

Representatives from ministries and agencies, experts and scientists contributed their opinions to the first draft of the project to build a strategy for building and perfecting a rule-of-law socialist State till 2030 with orientations to 2045, at a meeting on April 18.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid a visit to the National Sports Training Centre in Hanoi on April 18 ahead of the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) to inspect the site and offer words of encouragement to Vietnamese athletes training there.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Culinary Culture Association (VCCA) has launched a programme aimed at searching for 100 typical Vietnamese dishes in order to establish a digitised culinary map of local delicacies in the future.

Various art performances of a contest for Vietnamese youths in Russia have been staged at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University).

VOV.VN - The Association of Vietnamese Intellectuals in Japan (AVIJ) on April 16 held a congress to review activities during the 2019-2021 tenure and outline orientations for the next term.

The expected dominance of foreign retailers in the Vietnamese market has not occurred. Many foreign giants have left and Vietnamese retailers are controlling the market.

Meta’s survey shows that small and medium enterprises in Vietnam are affected by the new COVID-19 strain, but optimistic signals are revealed.

VOV.VN - With the easing of regulations against the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with continued economic recovery, European business leaders are giving positive forecasts for the future growth of the Vietnamese economy.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Vu Hong Na has handed over a ball with the footballers’ signatures to Takehiro Kano, head of the Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia Department under the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to convey it to Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.