VOV.VN - Nepal is recovering from a strong earthquake last year. Although rebuilding will take more time and more money, morale is high.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on May 1 he hoped to make progress in talks in Geneva over the next two days toward renewing a cessation of hostilities agreement throughout Syria and resuming peace talks to end the fighting.

Islamic State attacks have increased this year, particularly in Iraq and Syria as the group responds to substantial territorial losses, a US-based analysis firm IHS said on May 1.

The Philippine police said on May 1 that 10 Indonesian sailors held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf insurgent group five weeks ago were freed.

The number of British people who want to stay in the European Union has risen over the past four weeks, an online poll by market research company Opinium Research for the Observer newspaper showed on April 30.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin fired several high-ranking law enforcement officials on April 30 in one of the biggest overhauls of the country's power structures in recent years.

Nearly 30 air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo on April 30 as a temporary "calm" declared by Syria’s military took effect around Damascus and in the northwest.

VOV.VN - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his visiting Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida held talks in Beijing on April 30.

A helicopter ferrying passengers from a Norwegian oil platform crashed in the North Sea on April 29, apparently killing all 13 people on board, rescue officials said.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Supreme Court on April 29 sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labor for subversion, North Korean media reported, in the latest conviction of a foreigner for crimes against the isolated state.

An Indonesian transport official has said ships travelling from the country's Borneo Island to the Philippines need to have an armed escort as piracy in the waters is escalating. 

Air strikes destroyed a hospital and killed dozens of people in rebel-held areas of Aleppo, including children and doctors, in an attack that a US official said appeared to be solely the work of the Syrian government.

VOV.VN -  The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has carried out a number of missile launches despite strong international opposition. This has increased tensions on the Korean peninsula and nuclear talks can’t be resumed for the moment.

President Barack Obama said on April 28 he expected the United States would meet a goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees before the end of the year despite delays and opposition from critics concerned about security implications.

VOV.VN - The ASEAN-US Joint Cooperation Committee convened its 7th meeting on April 28 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to review recent activities and discuss stronger cooperation in the future to realize the statements made by both sides’ senior leaders. 

Several members of the US Congress on April 27 urged the Obama administration to help strengthen marine security in the East Sea via increasing naval operations close to disputed islands in those waters.

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was placed under formal investigation on terrorism and murder charges in France on April 27 after his extradition from Belgium, and he promised to talk to judges during his next hearing, his French lawyer said.

A female suicide bomber wounded eight people when she blew herself up near the main mosque in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa on April 27, officials said, the fifth suicide bombing in a major urban center this year.

The United Nations mediator on April 28 called on the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation to salvage the "barely alive" two-month-old ceasefire in Syria and revitalize the damaged peace process.

Cambodia, on April 27, dispatched 230 troops to join a United Nation (UN) peacekeeping mission in the West African nation of Mali, where they will work in mine clearance and airport construction. 

Senior Kurdish and Shi'ite Muslim leaders agreed on April 27 to withdraw their forces from a northern Iraqi town in a bid to end violence that has killed more than 10 people in recent days.

Cambodia does not have any new agreements regarding the East Sea issue with China, the country’s Secretary of State and Spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Phay Siphan, has said. 

The 41st ASEAN Senior Transport Officials Meeting (STOM) opened in the Philippines’ capital city of Manila on April 26, discussing initiatives to further bolster transportation connections in the region.

VOV.VN - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded his tour of 3 Southeast Asian nations on April 24 with a statement on a 4-point agreement on the East Sea. 

The United States warned US citizens in Turkey on April 26 about "credible" terrorist threats to tourist areas in the country.

The United States warned on April 26 it would consider "other" options, which could include new sanctions or security steps, if the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) continued nuclear and ballistic missile testing.

Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan is scheduled to visit Russia and attend an Informal Meeting of the Defense Ministers of ASEAN and Russia and the fifth Moscow International Conference from April 25-28.

Myanmar’s Government has banned cabinet members from appointing their relatives as personal assistants, according to an announcement from the Minister of the President’s Office Aung San Suu Kyi.

VOV.VN - US President Barack Obama visited the UK from April 21 to 24. Economic issues, the war on terror, and persuading the UK to remain in the EU topped his agenda. 

Libya's UN-backed unity government said on April 25 it taken administrative control of seven ministries in Tripoli including the foreign ministry, as it pushes to extend its control over the capital.