(VOVWORLD) -Entries to the National Press Awards 2021 vividly reported on the country's major political events and the COVID-19 pandemic last year, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association Nguyen Duc Loi said.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s representative on Thursday underlined the necessity of maintaining peace, security and freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea (known internationally as the South China Sea).

(VOVWORLD) - It is time for ASEAN and India to elevate their strategic partnership and comprehensive cooperation to a new height, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son said at the Special ASEAN-India Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Thursday presented countries with a series of draft trade agreements that includes pledges on health, reform, and food security, and called on member states to agree on this "unprecedented" package of trade agreements.

(VOVWORLD) - France, Germany, Italy, and Romania are all in favour of Ukraine receiving the “immediate” official status of EU candidate, leaders of the four EU countries said Thursday during a visit to Ukraine.

(VOVWORLD) - Russia promised on Thursday to speed up talks about increased gas sales to China and warned that Europe will pay a hefty price for its oil embargo against Russia.

(VOVWORLD) - The potential for economic and trade cooperation between Vietnam and Egypt was the highlight of a Vietnam-Egypt business forum recently held by the Embassy of Vietnam in Egypt.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 774 new COVID-19 infections in 44 out of 63 localities in the past 24 hours, bringing the total caseload to more than 10.7 million.

(VOVWORLD) - Nearly 500,000 hectares of bomb and mine contaminated land were cleared under the National Mine Action Program in the 2010-2020 period, narrowing landmine contaminated areas to 5.6 million ha.

(VOVWORLD) - The remaining 156 members of Vietnam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1 arrived in Abyei at 2pm on June 15 (local time) to join the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), finishing their four-day march – part of the UN’s peacekeeping operations, the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations announced on June 16.