(VOVWORLD) - The Partnership for Higher Education Reform (PHER) project, which involves several Vietnamese and US universities, was launched on Monday to improve the academic quality, governance, and market relevance of Vietnam’s higher education institutions.

(VOVWORLD) - US Admiral John Aquilino, commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, is visiting New Zealand after his Australia trip last week for an annual meeting with Indo-Pacific military leaders.

(VOVWORLD) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday hailed the first grain ship to leave the Ukrainian port of Odesa under a UN-brokered deal.

(VOVWORLD) - The Health Ministry has urged the acceleration of COVID-19 vaccinations, particularly the injection of 3rd and 4th shots for people over 18 and for children from five to under 12 years old.

(VOVWORLD) - The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike, President Joe Biden said Monday in a speech from the White House.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has seen strong growth over two years of COVID-19 and an increase in foreign direct investment (FDI), according to Germany’s Junge Welt newspaper.

(VOVWORLD) - A memorial service was held in central Da Nang city on Tuesday for Hero of the People’s Armed Forces Kostas Sarantidis - Nguyen Van Lap, a man who held Greek and Vietnamese nationalities and joined the Vietnamese people’s resistance war against the French colonialists. He passed away in Athens in June, 2021, at the age of 94.

(VOVWORLD) - Senior officials of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and India gathered Monday at the Mekong-Ganga Senior Officials' Meeting (MGC) in Phnom Penh to discuss ways to accelerate implementation of the MGC Action Plan for the 2019-2022 period.

(VOVWORLD) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the US hopes China will not escalate tensions on the occasion of a visit to Chinese Taipei by House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

(VOVWORLD) - In a letter to participants of the 10th Review Conference of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Russian President Vladimir Putin said there can be no winners in a nuclear war and no such war should ever be started.