(VOVWORLD) - Executive Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans is on a three-day visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh. Amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic and growing global geostrategic competition, the visit demonstrates an intention to strengthen their comprehensive bilateral partnership.

(VOVWORLD) - Thanks to effectively containing the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam’s economy is recovering and so is the labor market. Hiring demand by major industries is forecast to grow quickly this year.

(VOVWORLD) - After the debut of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s book “Several theoretical and practical issues of socialism and the path toward socialism in Vietnam”, some overseas bloggers commented that the viewpoints and arguments in the book are obsolete and that Vietnam’s moving toward socialism is a mistake. These comments are calculated to undermine Vietnamese people’s confidence in the Party’s ideological goals and advance a hostile “peaceful evolution” agenda.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City has concentrated investment in the local healthcare system, to handle COVID-19 treatment in the “new normal” period.

(VOVWORLD) - A national online conference on Tuesday reviewed 20 years of implementing the 2002 Resolution on Collective Economy and 10 years of implementing the 2012 Law on Cooperatives. The conference promoted the development of the collective economy and cooperatives in Vietnam in the new period.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Joe Biden has announced a new strategy for a free and open Indo-Pacific, which is part of its effort to increase its influence in the region. The US and the three other members of “the Quad” are committed to building a free and open Indo-Pacific politically and economically.

(VOVWORLD) - For a majority of Vietnamese families, the first full-moon of the year is the first major event after Tet, the Lunar New Year Festival. People once again worship their ancestors at home and Buddha at pagodas to pray for good luck in the new year.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is exerting efforts to quickly recover its economy, in both the macro and the micro scale. Since the beginning of this year, new policies have been adopted to remove bottlenecks in public investment capital disbursement, infrastructure construction, and stimulation of consumer spending.

(VOVWORLD) - This year, Vietnam aims improve the quality of its stock market rather than expanding its size.

(VOVWORLD) - A fresh round of negotiations to restore the Iran nuclear deal signed in 2015 between Iran and six world powers began in Vienna on Tuesday, after the US took a step viewed as beneficial to the negotiations. Analysts, however, are being cautious about the final key outcome.