Vietnamese Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan paid an official visit to Greece at the invitation of Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou from October 31 – November 2.

The scheme aims to ease the burden on Greece, where migrant camps are squalid and overcrowded.

The head of the European Commission says the EU's first priority is to keep order on Greece's border.

The influx has come since Turkey vowed to open its doors for migrants to travel the EU.

The Ho Chi Minh City International Music Festival 2019 (HOZO 2019) kicked off at the Nguyen Hue pedestrian street, District 1, HCM City on December 13.

 Forest fires raging across Greece have killed at least 20 people, the government says, as the authorities there seek international assistance.

 Data in the coming week should confirm the euro zone economy is running hot, after the IMF upgraded growth forecasts and Greece returned to the debt market, 

 A Russian man suspected of being the anonymous mastermind behind one of the world's oldest crypto-currency exchanges and of laundering at least $4 billion has been arrested in Greece, 

 Concerns about a Greek bailout, early Italian elections and comments by the European Central Bank chief about the need for continued stimulus all kept the euro under pressure on Tuesday.

 Greece has reported a case of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus in a wild bird, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing official information from Greece.

 A ferry carrying 45 migrants left the Greek island of Lesbos for Turkey on Friday, part of a European Union deal that began this week to stem mass migration to Europe across the Aegean Sea.

 Greece's parliament has backed draft terms for a third bailout in five years after talks that lasted through the night and well into the morning.

 Greece has agreed a bailout deal "in principle" with its creditors, the European Commission has said.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has fiercely criticised the bailout deal offered to Greece by the eurozone.  

 Eurozone leaders have talked through the night in Brussels in a bid to agree terms for a new bailout for Greece.

 The eurozone has given Greece until Thursday to present new proposals to secure a deal with creditors, and has called a full EU summit for Sunday.

 Asian markets traded higher on Tuesday, recovering losses made a day earlier on fears that Greece would exit the eurozone, after voting no to bailout conditions from creditors.

 Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said Greeks made a "brave choice" in voting to reject the terms of an international bailout in Sunday's referendum.

VietNamNet Bridge - The news from Greece has affected the world market, but the Vietnamese stock market remained stable thanks to good news about the unlimited foreign ownership ratio in Vietnamese companies.