(VOVWORLD) - The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council has passed a resolution to merge HCM City’s eastern districts of 2, 9 and Thu Duc into one administrative unit to create an innovation hub tentatively called Thu Duc City.

(VOVWORLD) - As many as 68 outstanding projects, including 23 by women with disabilities and 10 by female students, of a start-up contest launched by the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) were announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Ho Chi Minh City hosted a ceremony on Tuesday to welcome the arrival of the first set of carriages which will be used on the Metro Line No 1 Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and Indonesia have emphasised the need to give priority to promoting intra-regional cooperation in the Great Lakes Region in Africa on the basis of peace and stability goals, and called for support from the international community for the region.

(VOVWORLD) - The Korea - ASEAN & India Business Week 2020 opened in the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s capital Seoul on Tuesday, highlighting Asia’s potential in the post-COVID-19 era and promoting the sharing of prosperity among Asian nations.

(VOVWORLD) - Severe flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rains in the central region have claimed 30 lives and left 22 injured and 14 others missing.

(VOVWORLD) - The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) will cover all 8 south central provinces and thousands of km2 in the East Sea (known internationally as the South China Sea) after a new transmission station is completed by the end of the year.

(VOVWORLD) - Hai Phong must be on par with other cities in Asia in the future and hold an important position in Southeast Asia by 2025, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

(VOVWORLD) - Japan and Australia have agreed that a free and open maritime order based on the rule of law is important, reported Japan’s Jiji Press.

(VOVWORLD) - The total number of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam stood at 1,113 on Tuesday after 3 imported cases were added the same day according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.