(VOVWORLD) - Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son talked by phone with his Canadian counterpart Marta Morgan on Thursday about bilateral relations and shared experience in Covid-19 prevention and control.

(VOVWORLD) - The G7 on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate in fighting the coronavirus amid heavy losses in global financial markets.

(VOVWORLD) - Chinese Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng has said that China has passed the peak of the Covid-19 epidemic.

(VOVWORLD) - A texting campaign was launched in Hanoi on March 12 in order to raise funds to support Agent Orange(AO)/dioxin victims .

(VOVWORLD) - President Donald Trump said he was ordering an immediate shut-down of all travel from Europe to the United States as he addressed the nation on the coronavirus response in Wednesday speech.

(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday convened a debate on "Peace and Security of Africa: Countering Terrorism and Extremism," and unanimously adopted a presidential statement.

(VOVWORLD) - Jesse Colombo, an economic forecaster, who predicted the 2008 global financial crisis, has warned that another crash is on the way, and this time it will be much worse. Colombo said a number of new bubbles in the EU’s real estate market, the US stock market, and others around the world are set to burst and the coronavirus is basically the one-two punch.

(VOVWORLD) - Treatment for all Covid-19 patients in Vietnam is progressing well, said Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son at an online-diagnosis session on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - ASEAN and Japan will further expand cooperation on infrastructure development, heard the 14th meeting of the ASEAN-Japan Joint Cooperation Commitee (AJJCC) in Jakarta on Monday. Ambassador Tran Duc Binh, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to ASEAN, and Japanese Ambassador to ASEAN Chiba Akira co-chaired the meeting.

(VOVWORLD) - Hanoi authorities on Thursday discussed ways to boost the local socio-economic growth amidst the widespread Covid-19 pandemic.