(VOVWORLD) -President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Thursday sent a letter to teachers, education staff, parents and students on the occasion of the opening of the 2021-2022 school year.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Friday paid a working visit to Thai Nguyen province.

(VOVWORLD) -Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue will attend the fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Vienna, Austria, from September 6-9.

(VOVWORLD) - Swedish supergroup ABBA announced their first new album in four decades on Thursday and said they would stage a series of virtual concerts using digital avatars of themselves in London next year.

(VOVWORLD) - The Japanese Government has decided to continue providing Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan (China) with a total of 440,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 in early September, said Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.

(VOVWORLD) - From 6 a.m. on September 6 to 6 a.m. on September 21, Hanoi will be divided into three zones to strengthen the prevention and control of COVID-19, according to the Hanoi People's Committee.

(VOVWORLD) - The Philippines and the United States this week conducted a joint maritime exercise in Subic Bay adjacent to the South China Sea (called the East Sea in Vietnam). Coast guard ships and helicopters from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the US Coast Guard (USCG) were deployed.

(VOVWORLD) - At the invitation of the Boston Global Forum, Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc on Thursday attended the first meeting of the Vietnam Spark Plan, an initiative to help Vietnam fight COVID-19, recover and develop economy after the pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations has resumed humanitarian flights to northern and southern Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, a UN spokesman said Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - The European Union has called its digital COVID certification a success for resuming more than 70% of air transportation volume, which was restricted due to the Coronavirus.