(VOVWORLD) -Australia’s parliament passed a law on Thursday to make Google and Facebook pay media companies for content on their platforms in reforms that countries such as Britain and Canada are looking to replicate.

(VOVWORLD) - The national database systems on population, and citizen identification card issuance and management made debut on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Foreign leaders have sent congratulations to Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong on his re-election as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam in the 13th tenure.

(VOVWORLD) - Eight cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the past 12 hours to 6pm Thursday including seven locally-infected cases in the northern province of Hai Duong, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnam continues to be one of the important sources of workers for Japan’s economic recovery and development in the post-COVID-19 period, according to the Japanese magazine Modern Business.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order as early as this month to accelerate efforts to build supply chains for chips and other strategically significant products that are less reliant on China, in partnership with the likes of China’s Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

(VOVWORLD) - EU leaders gathered via video conference on Wednesday to discuss the possibility of common national measures, including vaccine passports, to allow travel between member states.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran will provide "detailed responses" to accusations by a UN expert over Tehran's accidental downing last year of a Ukrainian passenger jet, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Home Affairs held an online national training workshop to prepare personnel for the upcoming National Assembly and People’s Council elections for the term 2021-2026.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent congratulations to medical workers on duty to control the Covid-19 pandemic in Hai Duong province on the occasion of the Vietnamese Physicians’ Day, February 27.