(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City is urged to tighten COVID-19 prevention during the coming national holidays, National Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day (May 1).

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Minh Khoi received Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Vietnam Saud Al Suwelim in Hanoi on Friday, where the Ambassador handed financial assistance worth 150,000 USD to the Vietnam Fatherland Front to help people in the central region affected by the floods last year.

(VOVWORLD) - The US will temporarily deploy extra troops to Afghanistan to protect international forces as they withdraw, commander of the US military in the Middle East, General Kenneth McKenzie said on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - India recorded more than 314,000 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24-hour period, the highest daily case count in a single country since the virus appeared.

(VOVWORLD) - The Philippines on Thursday said it strongly supports a plan by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) secretary-general and current chair Brunei to visit Myanmar and spearhead a response to the situation there.

(VOVWORLD) - Travel firms are gearing up to welcome tourists for the National Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day (May 1) holiday with the COVID-19 pandemic under control in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Senate on Thursday voted 94-1 for a hate crimes bill to combat violence against Asian Americans in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 8 new imported COVID-19 cases on Friday morning. All were quarantined upon arrival.

(VOVWORLD) - A high-level Vietnamese Government delegation led by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday, to attend the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting.

(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the opening ceremony of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by the US on Thursday at the invitation of US President Joe Biden.