(VOVWORLD) - The 17th Tourism Festival of Ho Chi Minh City opened on Sunday, expected to help revive the travel sector in the city and Vietnam in general.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 200 military doctors, nurses, and students from Military Zone 9 arrived at the Can Tho International Airport on Saturday evening to support Mekong Delta provinces to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam aims to improve trade remedy capacity for domestic businesses as the number of trade remedy lawsuits against Vietnamese exports has soared.

(VOVWORLD) - Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have concluded their first joint naval exercise, Indonesia's navy said on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) -Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden will have a videoconference on Tuesday, RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. According to Peskov, the presidents would discuss the Ukraine issue and several other issues.

(VOVWORLD) - At least 30 people were killed in central Mali on Friday after militants attacked a bus ferrying people to a local market.

(VOVWORLD) - There are currently 265,699,524 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5,264,048 deaths from the coronavirus as of Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Prime Minister released a telegram on Saturday requesting ministries, agencies and localities to tighten COVID-19 prevention and control measures against the possible spread of the mutated variant Omicron in the country.

(VOVWORLD) - The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed the suspension of flights, including repatriation flights, from 10 African countries to prevent the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 from entering Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien, a Vietnamese model, outclassed nearly 60 other contestants from around the globe and took home the title of Miss Grand International 2021 at the grand finale held in Thailand on Saturday evening.