(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.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has emphasised the need to continue implementing COVID-19 prevention and control measures at the highest level.

(VOVWORLD) - Australian importers and supermarket owners said they believe Vietnamese lychees will be popular with Australian consumers this year and sell quickly thanks to their high quality.

(VOVWORLD) - An additional 102 COVID-19 cases, including 96 domestically-transmitted infections, were reported in Vietnam over the past six hours to 12pm on Thursday, raising the total number of patients to 7,972, said the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Thursday appointed Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong as Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA).

(VOVWORLD) - Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue talked with his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Heng Samrin via video teleconference on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Commission for the Management of State Capital at Enterprises had raised 100 million USD for the COVID-19 vaccine fund as of Wednesday, three days after a call was sent out by the Party, State, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front.