(VOVWORLD) - Priorities for implementing safe, orderly, and regular migration (GCM) topped the agenda of Friday’s conference in Ho Chi Minh city.

(VOVWORLD) - Global COVID-19-related deaths have passed the 1.5 million mark. According to an AFP tally released on Friday, the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus has recorded more than 10,000 cases per day worldwide, an unprecedented level.

(VOVWORLD) - Six hundred poor ethnic minority households in four COVID-19 hit communes in Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province, have received 61,000 USD in cash from UN Women, a United Nations entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment.

(VOVWORLD) - Chairman of Bangkok-based B.Grimm Group, Harald Link, said the company is studying the feasibility of an additional 3,000MW in Vietnam and a partnership with a US firm for 2,000MW of supply.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on Friday said Vietnam attaches importance to and wishes to develop cooperative ties with the Republic of Korea in all fields. Mr. Minh on Friday met with Republic of Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Tae-ho, who is in Hanoi for the 8th Mekong-Korea Business Forum.

(VOVWORLD) -The 2nd National Congress of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities opened in Hanoi on Friday with the attendance of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, and 1,600 delegates representing 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - The world needs to step up policy coordination, take collective action, and champion international cooperation and multilateral efforts in global governance in the fight against COVID-19, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a UN special session on COVID-19 that opened Thursday in New York.

(VOVWORLD) - Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang rejected the latest claim by Amnesty International that social platforms like Facebook have become tools for the repression of free expression in Vietnam. She was speaking at a regular press conference in Hanoi on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Russian, US, and French foreign ministries on Thursday issued a joint statement calling on foreign mercenaries to immediately leave Nagorno-Karabakh.

(VOVWORLD) - The US pharmaceutical company Pfizer will lower its COVID-19 vaccine production target from 100 million doses to 50 million doses this year, a spokesperson told reporters on Thursday.