(VOVWORLD) - ASEAN Secretary-General Dato Lim Jock Hoi has lauded Vietnam’s leadership and persistence in leading the ASEAN in building the ASEAN Community, especially in promoting joint efforts to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - It is "a lie" that Cuba supports terrorism, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday, commenting on the US recent decision to add Cuba to its list of "State Sponsor of Terrorism."

(VOVWORLD) - Russia is preparing to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty, which allows member nations to make unarmed surveillance flights over each other’s territory, a Russian Foreign Ministry statement said Friday.

(VOVWORLD) -The US supports a strong, independent and prosperous Vietnam that plays an increasingly important role in the region, contributing to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world, said US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien.

(VOVWORLD) - The 12th Party Central Committee’s 15th plenum will continue to finalize personnel who will join the 13th Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and Secretariat, said Party Chief and President Nguyen Phu Trong on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) -General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President Nguyen Phu Trong has sent a basket of flowers and a congratulatory message to newly-elected General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee Thongloun Sisoulith.

(VOVWORLD) - People flying to Vietnam from countries and territories infected with new variant of SARS-CoV-2 have to undergo a quarantine period longer than 14 days, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on Friday urged ministries and local agencies to pay health insurance for more than half a million poor elderly.

(VOVWORLD) - Nguyen Hue Flower Street 2021 is set to open to the public early February for the Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday.

(VOVWORLD) - Laura Rosenberger, a State Department and White House veteran, who was a foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2016 presidential election campaign, will serve as senior director for China in Joe Biden’s White House.