(VOVWORLD) - The Pentagon's Central Command announced on Tuesday that 90% of the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan has been completed.

(VOVWORLD) - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Masudi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov co-chair a Special ASEAN-Russia Foreign Ministers' Meeting via videoconference on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt hosted a business forum on Tuesday on prospects to tighten cooperation in trade, culture, and tourism between the two countries.

(VOVWORLD) - Russia hopes to hold an opening round of strategic stability talks with the United States this month and continue in a structured fashion, news agency RIA quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s high school graduation exams are underway on Wednesday and Thursday for nearly one million students with strict COVID-19 measures in place.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam was the 10th country in the world in terms of smartphone users in 2020 with more than 61 million, according to a recent report on the global mobile market.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung attended the opening session of the 2021 Indo-Pacific Business Summit, which was held online on Tuesday by India’s Ministry of External Affairs and the Confederation of Indian Industry.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Health said that from 6 am to 12 noon on Wednesday, Vietnam reported 400 more COVID-19 cases and Ho Chi Minh City continued to have the most with 347 cases.

(VOVWORLD) - South Korea will exempt the mandatory two-week quarantine, starting Thursday, for travelers from overseas, including Vietnam, if they are fully vaccinated, said the Korea Herald last week.

(VOVWORLD) - The White House on Tuesday said Vietnam will receive 2 million doses of Moderna vaccine from the Biden-Harris administration this week.