(VOVWORLD) - Lawmakers will elect the Chairperson of the National Assembly (NA) and the National Election Council (NEC) on March 31, as part of the 11th sitting of the 14th legislature.

(VOVWORLD) - The National Assembly Standing Committee has nominated Secretary of Hanoi’s Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue as the country's next National Assembly Chairperson.

(VOVWORLD) - Shipping was on the move again late on Monday in Egypt’s Suez Canal after tugs refloated a giant container ship which had been blocking the canal for almost a week, causing a huge build-up of vessels around the waterway.

(VOVWORLD) - During a regular UN Security Council discussion on the humanitarian situation in Syria on Monday, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Mission to the UN, expressed concern about the situation in Syria after a decade of conflict, especially the difficulties facing women, children and other vulnerable groups.

(VOVWORLD) - A report on the origins of COVID-19 to be released Tuesday by the World Health Organization says it is extremely unlikely that COVID-19 leaked from a lab.

(VOVWORLD) - The Belgium-Vietnam Friendship Association on Monday affirmed its backing for Vietnam’s stance on legitimate sovereignty in the South China Sea (known as the East Sea in Vietnam).

(VOVWORLD) - Britain has called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Myanmar.

(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly deputies on Tuesday approved the dismissal of National Assembly Chairwoman and Chairperson of the National Election Council Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Mozambique is keeping a close watch on the situation following terrorist attacks in northern Mozambique, and giving advice to Vietnamese citizens living there.

(VOVWORLD) - Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced Monday that the Panamanian container ship Ever Given has been successfully refloated, 6 days after it ran aground.