(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the State Steering Committee for important national and key projects in the Transport sector, on Wednesday chaired the 11th meeting of the Steering Committee.

(VOVWORLD) -Former US Army officer Barry Romo, who was a leading anti-war organizer and witness of the 1972 US bombings of Hanoi, passed away on May 1, in Chicago, at the age of 76, according to the Washington Post.

(VOVWORLD) -Digital travel platform Agoda on Wednesday announced the top Asian destinations for slow travel for longer, leisurely trips.

(VOVWORLD) - Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca began the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” that target new variants of the virus.

(VOVWORLD) - The UK is investing nearly 200 million GBP (251 million USD) to build the first high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) facility in Europe.

(VOVWORLD) -The nine historic Dynastic Urns, housed in the Hue Imperial Citadel in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, have been inscribed in the “Memory of the World Register”.

(VOVWORLD) -May 8th is observed as International Red Cross and Red Crescent Day with the theme “Keeping Humanity Alive”.

(VOVWORLD) -After visiting France, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday evening arrived in Belgrade, starting an official visit to Serbia at the invitation of President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic.

(VOVWORLD) -The focus is on promoting digital economic development, in which the banking industry plays the role of the lifeblood of the economy, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at an event on digital transformation in the banking sector in Hanoi on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) -Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs, during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, confirmed his attendance at the Ukrainian Peace Summit to be held in Switzerland next month.