(VOVWORLD) - The European Union (EU) and the French Development Agency (AFD) have reached an agreement to strengthen Vietnam’s resilience to climate change and natural hazards, and to try to ease the impact of COVID-19 in the Southeast Asian nation.

(VOVWORLD) - The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) is expected to be ratified by the National Assembly (NA) next Monday, the first day of the NA’s mid-year session.

(VOVWORLD) - Japan expects to begin clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine in July, Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo said on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Mobile transactions in Vietnam are forecast to increase 400% by 2025 in the Fintech and Digital Banking 2025 Asia Pacific Report released by Backbase on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese football star Nguyen Quang Hai has been listed as one of nine nominees for the Asian Front Three by the prestigious sports website Fox Sports Asia.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam reported no new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday morning, the 26th consecutive day without domestic infections, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum reopened to the public on Tuesday, said its management board.

(VOVWORLD) - Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry on Monday ordered Saudi Aramco to cut another 1 million barrels of oil production per day in a renewed effort to stabilize global energy markets.

(VOVWORLD) - The EU and the UK embarked on a third round of post-Brexit trade talks on Monday with little hope for a breakthrough amid the far more urgent challenge of dealing with the coronavirus crisis.

(VOVWORLD) - The death toll from coronavirus around the world had been over 287,000 while more than 4.27 million cases had been reported globally as of Tuesday afternoon, according to worldometers.info.