(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam's healthcare sector has actively and drastically directed the southwestern region to strengthen measures to prevent COVID-19 amidst the complicated developments of the pandemic in regional countries and the world, said Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.

(VOVWORLD) - US diplomatic missions in Turkey will be closed for routine services on Monday and Tuesday out of precaution fearing protests and demonstrations following a statement by US President Joe Biden, in which he referred to the 1915 mass killing of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide, the US Embassy in Ankara said on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - The KRI Nanggala 402 submarine that went missing off Bali with 53 people aboard earlier this week has "sunk," the Indonesian Navy said Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Indonesia’s newspaper Kompasiana ran an article about Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to Indonesia, his first foreign trip since he took office, to attended the ASEAN Leaders' Meeting in Jakarta on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - The world recorded over 147 million COVID-19 cases including 3.11 million deaths as of Sunday morning.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded no new COVID-19 cases on Sunday morning, said the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - The Chairman’s Statement on the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting was issued at the end of the gathering in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam arrived in Hanoi Saturday night, successfully concluding their trip to attend the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's largest urban expanse, has the second cheapest cost of living among six Southeast Asian cities included in a report by data aggregator iPrice Group.

(VOVWORLD) - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General on Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener shared updates on the situation in Myanmar during a meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday.