(VOVWORLD) - Kane Tanaka, the world's oldest person, on Sunday celebrated her 119th birthday with friends in a nursing home in Fukuoka Prefecture, southern Japan.

(VOVWORLD) - The annual 2021 Ashui Awards was announced on Friday to honour architects who have designed outstanding structures in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has recorded 1.76 million cases of COVID-19, ranking 31 out of 224 countries and territories regarding the number of cases, and 138 regarding the ratio of infections per million people.

(VOVWORLD) - A freight train departed from south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early Saturday for Vietnam, as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement began to come into force on the same day.

(VOVWORLD) - Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday said he would step down from his role. The decision was made less than two months after he was reinstated as part of a political agreement with the military.

(VOVWORLD) - The revenues of Egypt's Suez Canal reached 6.3 billion USD in 2021, the highest in the canal's history despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and navigation interruption in March when the giant shipping vessel Ever Given ran aground and blocked the waterway for nearly six days, according to Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Osama Rabie on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - The ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held a meeting on Monday to discuss the appointment of a new secretary general.

(VOVWORLD) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday he would continue to make efforts until the end of his term to bring about lasting peace on the Korean peninsula, and called for dialogue and cooperation with the North.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Monday, the world recorded more than 290.6 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 5.5 million deaths, according to statistics site worldometers.info. The number of recovered patients was nearly 255 million.

(VOVWORLD) - A high-altitude and low-altitude fireworks display will take place at Coconut Island, Thong Nhat Park, Hai Ba Trung District, according to the Hanoi People's Committee’s fireworks plan for the Lunar New Year of the Tiger in 2022.