(VOVWORLD) - A conference on US-Vietnam relations and progress made on war legacy issues in the last 25 years was held online Wednesday hosted by the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C.

(VOVWORLD) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced visa restrictions on employees of Chinese technology companies, including Huawei.

(VOVWORLD) - Covid-19 cases now total 13.68 million globally, with over 586,000 fatalities and more than 8 million recoveries, according to worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 8 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Education and Training has asked universities to enroll overseas Vietnamese students who returned to Vietnam due to the COVID-19 pandemic and foreign students who want to continue their study in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) -Credit policy is an important pillar in the national target program on sustainable poverty reduction as it has benefited 12 million households in credit access and helped 2.1 million households escape poverty.

(VOVWORLD) - Philippine Defense Chief Delfin Lorenzana said his country strongly agrees with the international community that there should be a rule-based order in the South China Sea, known as East Sea in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) -Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang has responded to the US stance on claims in the East Sea, internationally known as the South China Sea.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday called for patriotism, national pride, and the people‘s trust in the Party and State in the context of severe weather, raging COVID-19 pandemic, and global and regional geo-political tensions.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s good performance in COVID-19 response will help the country recover quicker than most other economies in the region, according to Oxford Economics. Oxford Economics' forecast is for gross domestic product growth of 2.3 per cent in 2020 followed by 8 per cent growth in 2021.