(VOVWORLD) - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has honored Vietnamese footballer Le Cong Vinh as one of five ASEAN legends on its Facebook page.

(VOVWORLD) - UEFA announced on Monday that it has postponed the Champions League, Europa League and women's Champions League finals, originally scheduled for May, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced a 6.5 billion USD initial response package to support Vietnam and other developing member countries (DMCs) to deal with Covid-19.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s Embassy in Saudi Arabia is stepping up measures to support and ensure the safety of about 10,000 Vietnamese people living there amid the spreading COVID-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam will develop a website to help people find jobs more easily as the COVID-19 pandemic has left many unemployed, said Minister of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung during an online conference on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has set a goal of ending tuberculosis by 2030, Director of the Central Lung Hospital and Chairman of the National Tuberculosis Control Program Nguyen Viet Nhung said on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday sent a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, expressing sympathy for the Japanese losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The coronavirus pandemic will cause a global recession in 2020 that could be worse than the one triggered by the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, but world economic output should recover in 2021, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - The International Olympic Committee confirmed that it will take up to four weeks to consider postponing the Tokyo Olympics amid mounting criticism of its handling of the coronavirus crisis.

(VOVWORLD) - International media have praised the measures taken by the Vietnamese Government to control the spread of the novel coronavirus.