(VOVWORLD) - Global maritime trade should recover in 2021 after tanking by 4.1 percent in 2020 owing to the coronavirus, a UN agency forecast Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - New carrier Bamboo Airways has been licensed by the US Department of Transportation to carry passengers and cargo between Vietnam and the US.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a campaign called “Ngung tao nghiep” (Stop karma), to call for an end to the illegal trade of ivory and pangolin scales in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - An extremely rare, purple-pink diamond mined in Russia, which Sotheby’s described as “a true wonder of nature”, sold for 26.6 million USD on Wednesday, the auction house said.

(VOVWORLD) - Thailand has seized almost 1 billion USD worth of contraband ketamine, most of it probably destined for Europe, Japan or Korea, the Thai Narcotics Suppression Bureau said Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Samsung Electronics may launch its flagship Galaxy S smartphones more than a month earlier than expected in a bid to grab market share from Huawei and fend off competition from Apple, three sources familiar with the matter said.

(VOVWORLD) - Flying taxi startup Lilium will set up its first US hub near Orlando, putting more than 20 million Floridians within range of the winged electric aircraft that can take off vertically and cover 300 km (185 miles) in a single one-hour hop.

(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phuc received outgoing New Zealand Ambassador to Vietnam Wendy Matthews in Hanoi on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Businesses in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta provinces and overseas have discussed ways to strengthen cooperation to increase Vietnam's exports to the US market.

(VOVWORLD) - Palestine has reiterated its readiness to resume negotiations with Israel based on international law and United Nations resolutions.