(VOVWORLD) - Commercial 5G services are expected to be released on a large scale in Vietnam this year, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

(VOVWORLD) - Indonesian authorities have retrieved one of the black boxes from a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea last weekend, a navy spokesman said on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - A delegation led by Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilization Truong Thi Mai on Monday presented gifts to soldiers in Quang Nam province who helped locals mitigate natural disasters.

(VOVWORLD) - The ambitious Great Green Wall for the Sahel and Sahara Initiative (GGW) has received at least 14.3 billion USD in new funding, said French President Emmanuel Macron Monday at the One Planet Summit for Biodiversity in Paris.

(VOVWORLD) - The Rusvesna (Russian Spring) e-newspaper on Monday posted an article on Vietnam’s achievements in economic development, poverty reduction, COVID-19 prevention and control, and foreign affairs under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Switzerland, as Chair of the ASEAN Committee in Bern (ACB), hosted the fifth meeting of the Committee in 2020, at which Vietnam’s term as Chair of the Committee was reviewed and the role was handed over to the Philippines Embassy.

(VOVWORLD) - Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered his government to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank, an early test for the administration of US President-elect Joe Biden, who has been a fierce critic of projects built on land that the Palestinians claim for their future state.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Monday urged Britain, France and Germany to "implement their obligations" under the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Prime Minister has requested that from now until the Lunar New Year holiday, all repatriation flights to Vietnam be considered carefully by the Foreign Ministry and the Ministries of Health, Public Security, Defence, and Transport, and submitted to the PM for approval.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on Monday asked the Foreign Ministry to keep a close watch on, and protect Vietnam’s sea and islands sovereignty and legitimate interests in the East Sea.