(VOVWORLD) - Japan has decided to end a Covid-19 state of emergency in most of the country, aiming at a gradual lift in restrictions to help revive its battered economy and manufacturing industry and sustain demand for energy and metals.

(VOVWORLD) - Eight patients who had been suffering from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were released from hospital on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - President of the Belgium-Vietnam Friendship Association Pierre Grega has voiced the association's support for Vietnam as China has increasingly undertaken unilateral actions in the East Sea.

(VOVWORLD) - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang has reacted to the deployment of Chinese aircraft KJ-500 and KQ-200 in the Fiery Cross Reef as shown via ISI satellite image as well as the operation of Chinese armed civilian vessels and fishing boats in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago.

(VOVWORLD) - The 12th Plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee closed in Hanoi on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 4.4 million coronavirus cases had been reported globally as of Thursday morning, according to worldometers.info. The death toll has now surpassed 290,000. More than 1.6 million people have recovered.

(VOVWORLD) - EC President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday proposed to the European Parliament a COVID-19 recovery package that includes new investment, solvency, and health plans, and proposals to raise new EU revenues.

(VOVWORLD) - 200 contest entries on studying and following President Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and lifestyle in the 2018-20 period were honored at a ceremony in Hanoi on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Chinese government is preparing retaliation for the US request for an investigation of China’s COVID-19 response, the Chinese Global Times said Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - 300 representatives of tourism companies on Wednesday agreed to reduce prices by 30 to 50% and introduce new products to lure tourists to the northern province of Quang Ninh as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.