(VOVWORLD) -Hanoi plans six more underground urban railway lines with a combined length of 86.5 kilometres under an underground space planning project to 2030, with a vision towards 2050, according to Nguyen Duc Nghia, deputy director of the municipal Department of Planning and Architecture.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam has not yet recorded two new sub-variants of Omicron, BA.4 and BA.5, the Department of Preventive Medicine said after the World Health Organization announced on Monday it is tracking a few dozen cases of new sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain of COVID.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam is ready to make substantive contributions at the UN development forums, according to the country’s head of the Permanent Mission to the UN.

(VOVWORLD) -The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) together with more than 100 media agencies from all over the country are showcasing their journalistic achievements at the National Press Festival, which opened on Wednesday morning in Hanoi Museum.

(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has sent greeting letters and flowers to General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith and President of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen on the occasion of the traditional New Year of Laos (Bunpimay) and Cambodia (Chol Chnam Thmay).

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Tuesday extended his greetings over the phone to Lao PM Phankham Viphavanh and Cambodian PM Samdech Techo Hun Sen on the occasion of the two neighboring countries’ traditional New Year festival.

(VOVWORLD) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to visit Southeast Asia including Vietnam during the Golden Week holidays, seeking to strengthen cooperation amid China’s growing assertiveness in the region, Japanese media reported on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The delegation of the European Union (EU) to Ukraine said on Monday it has resumed its work in Kyiv.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 22,804 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, down from more than 23,184 a day before.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s foreign trade reached 176 billion USD in the first quarter of this year, a year-on-year increase of 14.4%, according to Tran Thanh Hai, Deputy General Director of the Agency of Foreign Trade.