(VOVWORLD) - France will lead a three-day naval drill called La Perouse in the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean on Monday with its QUAD partners - India, Australia, Japan, and the US.

(VOVWORLD) - In 2020, the Mekong Delta continued to have the lowest spatial cost of living index (SCOLI) in Vietnam, according to the General Statistics Office.

(VOVWORLD) - The People's Committee of Gia Lai province on Sunday decided to dissolve COVID-19 Field Hospital after 50 medical staff of the hospital completed 14 days of medical isolation and returned to their previous organizations to continue working.

(VOVWORLD) -The National Assembly on Monday morning elected Nguyen Xuan Phuc as President of Vietnam. After being elected, the new President was sworn in.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam had two new COVID-19 cases to report in the past 12 hours to 6pm on April 4, raising the tally to 2,631, including 1,603 domestically-transmitted infections, the Ministry of Health said.

(VOVWORLD) - The UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA) was signed in London on December 29, 2020 with its temporary application starting from January 1, 2021 (Vietnam time).

(VOVWORLD) - A total of 350 blood units were collected on Saturday at a blood donation drive themed “Give blood, give life”, organized by the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion and the Vietnam Housing Group Limited Company in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 9 new imported COVID-19 cases as of 6 a.m. of Sunday, April 4, all of them are Vietnamese and quarantined right after their arrival, bringing the total number of infections to 2,629, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - The Thailand-based Central Retail Corporation Public Company Limited (CRC) plans to spend as much as 35 billion THB (1.1 billion USD) on expanding its network in Vietnam over the next five years.

(VOVWORLD) -China will contact and coordinate with all parties, while working concertedly with the ASEAN, to promote peace talks in Myanmar and help ease the situation in the country at the earliest opportunity, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said.