(VOVWORLD) - UN Women in Vietnam is organizing the first Gender Equality Book Festival in Vietnam, Read&Rise Book Fest 2023, for International Women's Day, March 8.

(VOVWORLD) -Nearly 7,000 runners, including 290 international marathoners, are participating in the 5th Dalat Ultra Trail (DUT) 2023 which opened on Friday in Da Lat city.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnamese women’s football team will play Nepal and Afghanistan in Group C of the Women’s Olympic Football Asian Qualifiers, according to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Friday chaired the Government's regular meeting for February, where he stressed the key tasks of quality and efficient planning, disbursement of public investment capital, allocation of the entire budget plan in 2023, and effective implementation of the socio-economic recovery and development program as well as the national target programs.

(VOVWORLD) -The leaders of Russia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Italy and Mongolia on Friday sent messages of congratulations to Vo Van Thuong on his election as the President of Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia and Azerbaijan Dang Minh Khoi has emphasized Vietnam’s policies of putting people at its center and its its duo goals for both disease control and socio-economic development, which has helped Vietnam gain an impressive growth rate of 8.02% last year.

(VOVWORLD) -The US imposed new sanctions Thursday on Iran’s petrochemical sector and some shipping companies, according to the US Treasury Department's website.

(VOVWORLD) -A ceremony for a program called “March of Border” was held on Friday at the border crossings in Lang Son, Quang Tri, and Kien Giang province.

(VOVWORLD) -Female workers make up about 37% of the workforce in the technology sector in Vietnam, higher than the world’s average of 25%. However, the majority of women take on positions such as marketing, sales, administration and human resources rather than technical roles like software developers, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast delivered its first 45 cars to customers in California this week, its first sales outside Vietnam.