(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung on Tuesday called for ASEAN and China to work together to fight COVID-19 and spur a sustainable recovery.

(VOVWORLD) -From 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Vietnam reported 36 more COVID-19 cases, all in the quarantine areas.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam registered a trade surplus of 1.63 billion USD in the first four months of 2021 despite a 4% decline in monthly import-export turnover in April, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam now ranks 6th globally for imports from the US, spending 86 billion USD in total, up from 12th as recently as 2018, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of the shift in US import partners from March 2020 to March 2021.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh combined Eastern and Western ideologies, beginning in 1923, when he first set foot in the Soviet Union. His thought is still critical to Vietnam in the modern era, according to Professor Doctor Vladimir Kolotov, head of the Ho Chi Minh Institute at St. Petersburg University in Russia, who spoke about Ho Chi Minh thought in the contemporary world to celebrate Uncle Ho’s 131st birthday on May 19.

(VOVWORLD) - A delegation of Vietnam’s National Assembly on Tuesday attended a virtual meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)’s Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights.

(VOVWORLD) - A ceremony took place in the northern province of Hai Duong on Tuesday to mark the beginning of the local lychee harvest season and the first shipments this year of about 100 tonnes to Japan and Singapore.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is set to purchase 31 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from manufacturer Pfizer/BioNtech of the US under a deal to be signed shortly between the two sides, according to sources from the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - Vinbus Ecology Transport Services Limited Liability Company (VinBus), a member of Vietnam’s largest conglomerate Vingroup, on Monday trialed its smart electric bus service on Hanoi streets after one-month testing inside VinGroup’s urban areas.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam attended an international workshop held by the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly (APE) on Tuesday along with representatives of over 20 countries, international and regional organisations.