(VOVWORLD) - Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Robyn Mudie has lauded Vietnam’s efforts to eliminate gender inequality over the past years.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam resolutely opposes and demands Chinese Taipei to cancel its live-fire exercises in the waters around Ba Binh island in Vietnam's Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and not to repeat similar actions in the future, spokeswoman for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang said on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Investment in biomass power projects and conversion of coal-to-biomass power projects by Erex Group will contribute to the realization of the net zero emission target by 2050, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said, adding that the National Assembly and Government of Vietnam support this direction.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam confirmed 169,114 new cases of COVID-19 in 61 provinces and cities on Friday, said the Ministry of Health. During the day, more than 74,000 COVID-19 patients recovered, 71 died.

(VOVWORLD) -Following the first flight on Wednesday that repatriated 318 Vietnamese who fled Ukraine to Poland, the second flight will depart from Chopin airport in the Polish capital of Warsaw on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Joe Biden will call for an end of normal trade relations with Russia and pave the way for increased tariffs on Russian imports, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Tensions in Ukraine and massive sanctions against Russia have triggered a contraction in global trade, sending food and energy prices surging and forcing the International Monetary Fund to lower its global growth forecast next month, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Safe, effective tourism topped the agenda of a forum which opened in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) -Head coach Park Hang-seo has called up midfielder Schmidt Adriano to the Vietnamese national football team ahead of Group B clashes against Oman and Japan in the third round of the FIFA World Cup 2022 Asian Qualifiers.

(VOVWORLD) - 57-year-old David Bennett, the first person in the world to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart, died on Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said. He received the transplant two months earlier.