(VOVWORLD) - The International Monetary Fund estimates that global growth for 2021 will be about 6%, the same as forecast in April, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will begin a 2-day visit to China on Sunday, the State Department said Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The fight against COVID-19 was the highlight of the government report on socio-economic performance in the first half of 2021 and solutions for the second half presented by Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on Thursday at the first session of the 15th National Assembly.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s Defense Minister General Phan Van Giang received Robert Ben Lobban Wallace, UK’s Secretary of State for Defense, in Hanoi on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Thursday noon 192.8 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported globally, and 4.1 million patients had died, according to worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is planning to maintain fast, sustainable economic growth until 2025 by strengthening its macro-economy and developing its technology, with the aim of becoming a developing country with a modern industry and surpassing the low-middle income level, said Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung at a National Assembly meeting on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - People aged 65 and above and those with underlying health conditions in Ho Chi Minh City are on the priority list for vaccination against COVID-19 in the fifth phase of its inoculation drive, which begins on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has affirmed Vietnam’s commitments to the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC), saying that countries need to further uphold the potential of the mechanism to contribute to peace, prosperity and sustainable development in the region.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam closely follows the ongoing situation in Cuba and firmly believes that the Cuban people, with their revolutionary tradition and dauntlessness demonstrated over the past decades, will soon overcome these economic hardships and pandemic impacts, said Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese mission to the United Nations hosted an online meeting of the Group of Friends on the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on Wednesday.