-Strengthening cooperation between Vietnamese and Japanese localities is an important driving force to forge closer relations between two countries, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Sunday. Meeting Kuroiwa Yuji, governor of Kanagawa prefecture of Japan, who is on a working trip to Vietnam, President Phuc applauded the growing extensive strategic

– Vietnam has reaffirmed its consistent policy of supporting all major pillars of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), including ensuring nuclear safety and security, and inspection and application of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Ambassador Nguyen Trung Kien, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the IAEA, made the statement while

North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui expressed displeasure at UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s condemnation of the North’s most recent ballistic missile test and accused him of siding with the US. In a statement carried by state media, Choe emphasized that North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons is for self-defence and

– The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) is a role model for inter-parliamentary cooperation in the region, said Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue at the AIPA’s 43rd General Assembly which opened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Monday. Chairman Hue put forth some proposals, focusing on strengthening ASEAN’s solidarity and

-Children being unknowingly left inside a vehicle has become a more common occurrence. The Digital Economy Promotion Agency has introduced a new system that aims to prevent these incidents, using sensors and AI technology to ensure no children are on school buses at the end of service. The Digital Economy

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said on Sunday that he is preparing to go to Russia and Ukraine to discuss the security of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Grossi told French broadcaster BFM that targeted strikes at Zaporizhzhia have created a very serious