(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese national men’s football team remained top of Group G in the Asian region’s second qualifying round for the 2022 FIFA World Cup following two group matches being played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 80 more local COVID-19 cases Friday noon, bringing the total count since the morning to 132.

(VOVWORLD) - The Health Ministry confirmed 52 new local COVID-19 cases Friday morning, bringing the number of infections in the ongoing wave to more than 5,000.

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(VOVWORLD) - The Republic of Korea’s Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong held talks with US Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm. John C. Aquilino in Seoul on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - EU institutions on Wednesday said they had agreed a 14.16 billion euros ($17.3 billion) 2021-27 aid package for candidate countries seeking to join the bloc.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran and the Central African Republic are in arrears on paying their dues to the United Nations' operating budget and will lose their voting rights in the 193-member General Assembly, the UN chief said in a letter circulated Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Phan Van Giang talked via videoconference with his Japanese counterpart Kishi Nobuo on Thursday, agreeing to further intensify cooperation in military medicine to combat COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam will have more than 120 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in 2021. The Ministry of Health has said that besides AstraZeneca vaccine, Vietnam has negotiated to procure 5 million Moderna doses, 31 million Pfizer doses, and 20 million Sputnik V doses.

(VOVWORLD) - A text message campaign for making donations to the fight against COVID-19 and the “vaccines for workers” programme were launched in Hanoi on Thursday as Vietnam exerts every effort to contain the epidemic.