Israel advanced plans on Thursday for more than 4,400 housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli non-governmental organization said.  The Civil Administration’s high planning committee gave final approval to nearly 2,800 units and initial endorsement for another 1,600, said Peace Now, an organization that closely

 Vietnam’s economic recovery is gaining momentum despite heightened global uncertainty around the protracted conflict in Ukraine, higher commodity prices, and tightening global financial conditions, according to the World Bank. The assessment was released in the May edition of the WB’s monthly Vietnam Macro Monitoring. According to the report, after peaking in

Cooperation between Vietnam and the US continues to develop in all fields, particularly in investment and finance, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting with the US business community in Washingon, D.C on Thursday.  At the meeting, held by the US-ASEAN Business Council and the US Chamber of

  Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong have agreed to promote high-level visits and meetings and maintain bilateral cooperative mechanisms during their meeting on Thursday ahead of the ASEAN-US Special Summit in the US. The two Government leaders also reached consensus on continued cooperation

 Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with US President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday (US time) within the framework of the ASEAN-US Special Summit in Washington DC. The two leaders discussed relations between Vietnam and the US and regional and global issues. Prime Minister Chinh called the

 Vietnam values its relationship with Indonesia, a leading strategic partner in the region, and always promotes a healthy, stable, sustainable and long-term development of the relationship with Indonesia in economics, security, defense, culture, education, tourism and people-to-people exchanges, said President Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Receiving Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto in

  -Tours of Hanoi using double-decker buses are being offered free of charge to all delegates, including athletes, coaches, and reporters, at the ongoing SEA Games 31 throughout May.  The buses, running between 9am and 5pm every day, can be identified with the Games’ logo and the line ‘Official bus