(VOVWORLD) - A seminar on the collaboration of military and civilian medicine on islands and at sea was held at the Military Hospital 175 on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam Medical Association on Friday honored 87 outstanding intellectuals of the medical sector and received the Labor Order, 2nd Class.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Hoang Giang on Friday reiterated Vietnam's consistent policy of and commitment to protecting and promoting human rights, putting people at the center and considering people as the goal and motivation for development.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and Australia have been nominated as co-chairs of the Southeast Asia Regional Program (SEARP) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for the 2022-2025 period, replacing Thailand and South Korea.

(VOVWORLD) -National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue will lead a high-ranking delegation of the National Assembly to pay official visits to the Republic of Korea and India from December 12 to 19, said the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Friday requested agencies and localities to strictly control the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize new infection cases, severe cases and deaths amid the surge of community cases and risk of highly-mutated Omicron variant entering and spreading in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, chaired an online meeting on Friday with the Steering Committees of 63 provinces and cities.

(VOVWORLD) -Anti-immigration, increasing strategic autonomy, promoting economic recovery, strengthening ties with Africa, and resolving disagreements with the UK will be France's priorities in the first six months of 2022 when it will take over the rotating presidency of the European Union (EU), French President Emmanuel Macron said at a press conference on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - A Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monument was inaugurated on Thursday in Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese authorities have worked closely with domestic and foreign airlines to conduct more than 800 flights to bring home approximately 200,000 Vietnamese citizens from 60 countries and territories during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang on Thursday.