(VOVWORLD) - French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering HIV that causes AIDS, has died, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii this week to engage with Indo-Pacific allies and partners to advance peace, resilience, and prosperity across the region and demonstrate that these partnerships deliver.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday met members of the Vietnamese national women’s football team who returned home earlier the same day after earning a berth at the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time and finishing fifth at the recently-concluded 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup.

(VOVWORLD) - President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in said Thursday that he is willing to hold an inter-Korean summit without prerequisites in whatever format North Korea wants amid concern that Pyongyang could end its 2017 self-imposed moratorium on long-range missiles launches.

(VOVWORLD) - China on Wednesday released the 2021 Blue Book of Aerospace Science and Technology, which reviews global space activities in 2021 and introduces China’s space program for 2022 run by the Space Department of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).

(VOVWORLD) - The number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the past 24 hours as of 4pm Thursday to a record 26,032, including 9 imported cases, up over 2,000 cases from the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and the Republic of Korea agreed to jointly organize activities to celebrate the 30th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties, upgrade their relationship to comprehensive strategic partnership, increase contacts between their high-ranking leaders, and effectively implement cooperative agreements.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a ceremony on Thursday to launch the healthcare program for schoolchildren for the 2021-2025 period. The event, held virtually, connects nearly 42,000 schools in 63 cities and provinces nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s national female football team have returned home after excellently fulfilling their mission in the final round of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2022 and earning a berth in the finals of the Women’s World Cup for the first time.

(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has chaired the first session of the national steering committee for 10-year review of the national defense strategy in the new situation.