(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam attracted 12.3 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first four months of 2020, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

(VOVWORLD) - China’s plan to establish two new districts in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago is a violation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thao, Vice Chairman of the UN International Law Commission, said in a recent interview with the Voice of Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - As of 6am on Monday there were no community transmission of coronavirus in Vietnam for 11 days in a row, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - The World Health Organization has approved made-in-Vietnam COVID-19 test kits, making it easier for the kits to be exported to other countries.

(VOVWORLD) -The EU is committed to maritime order based on international law, maritime security and cooperation, and freedom of navigation and overflight, in the interest of all states, according to EU Ambassador to ASEAN Igor Driesmans.

(VOVWORLD) - The US has announced upcoming deployments for seven units to Europe, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait despite the recent extension of a Defense Department stop-movement order to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 100 Vietnamese citizens were brought home on Sunday thanks to the joint efforts by Vietnamese authorities, Vietjet Air, and Indonesian agencies, the returnees, who include children, elderly people, and students, landed at the Cần Thơ airport in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

(VOVWORLD) -212 countries and territories around the world have reported more than 2.9 million confirmed infections and more than 206,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, according to statistics website worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - A Vietjet Air flight carrying 105 Vietnamese citizens from Indonesia landed at Can Tho International Airport in southern Vietnam on Sunday afternoon. All of them were immediately brought to a quarantine facility of the Army’s 897 Regiment in Soc Trang province.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Monday morning, Vietnam entered the 3rd day without recording a new case of COVID-19, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.