(VOVWORLD) - ASEAN and China have greatly contributed to peace, stability and prosperity in the region and the world by maintaining a dialogue and promoting cooperation for 30 years, said Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh via video conference on Thursday at the opening ceremony of the 18th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Trade and Investment Summit in Nanning, China.

(VOVWORLD) - Babies whose mothers have COVID-19 will receive 44 USD each, according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. The beneficiaries must be born between April 27 and the end of this year.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnamese Government will continue to create the best conditions for EU firms to invest and do business in Vietnam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said Thursday while receiving EU countries’ Ambassadors, representatives of the European Chamber of Commerce (Eurocham), and a number of European businesses already operating here.

(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has stressed the need to fight wrongdoings of political thought, morality, and lifestyle, which he said it’s more important than fighting corruption in economics, because the degradation of political ideology, morality, and lifestyle leads to corruption. This is the root, the basic thing that needs to be combated, said Mr. Trong, who is also Head of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-corruption, at a meeting of the Politburo in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The 18th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (CABIS) opened in Nanning city of Quangxi province, China, on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Joe Biden spoke by phone with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for about 90 minutes on Thursday, a senior US official said, with both leaders discussing the need to avoid conflict between the world's two largest economies.

(VOVWORLD) - Lung cancer patients in England will become the first in Europe to receive a drug made by US biotech Amgen that targets a specific gene mutation, the country's health service said on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - President Joe Biden took aim on Thursday at vaccine resistance in America, announcing policies requiring most federal employees to get COVID-19 vaccinations and pushing large employers to have their workers inoculated or tested weekly.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam plans to reopen the beach-fringed island of Phu Quoc to foreign tourists from next month, authorities said, as the country looks at ways to revive an economy suffering from extended social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam logged additional 12,420 OCVID-19 infections including 21 imported cases and 12,399 domestically transmitted cases from 5 pm on Wednesday to 5 pm on Thursday.