(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged ministries, sectors and localities to take steps to help Ho Chi Minh City and some southern provinces fight COVID-19 while maintaining production activities.

(VOVWORLD) -The head of the World Health Organisation said on Thursday that investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China were being hampered by the lack of raw data on the first days of spread there and urged it to be more transparent.

(VOVWORLD) -Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling five Neutrogena and Aveeno brand aerosol sunscreen products after detecting a cancer-causing chemical in some samples.

(VOVWORLD) -US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to disagree on Thursday about a Russian pipeline project that Washington opposes, while vowing to stand together against aggression from Moscow and anti-democratic action from Beijing.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa has advised Vietnamese citizens residing and doing business there to closely monitor the situation and avoid traveling to areas that are known to be unstable.

(VOVWORLD) - Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries has died just over a week after being shot in a busy Amsterdam street, his family and his employer RTL Netherlands said on Thursday, prompting an outpouring of grief and anger at home and abroad.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam on Thursday approved Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, as the country tries to boost supplies at a time of record numbers of new infections.

(VOVWORLD) - The Health Ministry confirmed 1,438 local COVID-19 infections in 18 cities and provinces Friday morning, led by Ho Chi Minh city with more than 1,000 cases.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam recorded 1,922 new COVID-19 infections, including 33 imported and 1,889 local cases, from 6am to 7h30pm on July 15, according to the Ministry of Health

(VOVWORLD) - China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has put forward a five-point proposal on the sustainable and resilient development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.