(VOVWORLD) -President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia wants to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible and this inevitably means a diplomatic solution.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnam Culinary Culture Association (VCCA) announced 121 typical Vietnamese dishes for 2022 on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam attaches special importance to its relations with ASEAN in its foreign policy, and exerts efforts to actively contribute to building a strong and united ASEAN and to uphold its central role in the regional security structure, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) -President Nguyen Xuan Phuc praised the role and contribution of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) in cooperation with Vietnam as he met with KADIN Chairman Arsjad Rasjid in Jakarta on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Innovation Center (NIC) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the UNDP co-organized a conference today on innovation in the public sector and introduced the Public Sector Innovation Index (PII) framework. The participants discussed the initial research results and solutions to boost innovation in the public sector in Vietnam in the future.

(VOVWORLD) - NASA’s InSight mission has ended after more than four years of conducting research science on Mars.

(VOVWORLD) - The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan, the latest step in its brutal clampdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women.

(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations Security Council has adopted its first resolution on Myanmar in 74 years, which demands an end to violence and calls on the country’s military rulers to release all political prisoners, including democratically-elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

(VOVWORLD) - The WHO chief has identified five priorities for the world health authority in 2023 including focusing on disease prevention by shifting from sick care to healthcare; promoting universal health coverage, particularly primary healthcare; strengthening emergency preparedness and response; pushing forward research, science and technology; and continuing to reform the WHO.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam hopes to collect 1.47 million units of blood from 1.5% of the population next year. This target was set at a conference to review blood donations this year and targets for next year.