(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Geneva on Friday, beginning an official visit to Switzerland. This is Mr. Phuc's first visit to Europe as President of Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Young Vietnamese intellectuals on Thursday discussed measures to promote digital transformation in production, business, and management.

(VOVWORLD) - Britain said on Friday that a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa was considered by scientists to be the most significant one yet found and so it needed to ascertain whether or not it made vaccines ineffective.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s Online Shopping Week will be held from Saturday to December 5, according to The Vietnam E-Commerce and Digital Economy Agency.

(VOVWORLD) - Nitazoxanide has been successfully synthesized by the Institute of Chemistryto produce drugs to treat COVID-19 patients with mild and medium symptoms.

(VOVWORLD) - Australia on Friday said it was investigating the newly identified COVID-19 variant spreading in South Africa and warned it may close its borders to travellers from the African nation if risks from the new strain rise.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) its Mobile Money service on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - The United States Department of Defense will establish a new group to investigate reports on the presence of UFOs in restricted airspace.

(VOVWORLD) - The EU's drug regulator approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of five and 11 on Thursday, paving the way for them to be given a first shot as Europe struggles with a surge in cases.

(VOVWORLD) - Remittance to Vietnam is estimated at more than 18 billion USD this year, according to the World Bank and the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development.