(VOVWORLD) - The US has affirmed appreciation for cooperation with ASEAN and ASEAN’s important position in the Indo-Pacific strategy based on the principles of freedom, transparency, law compliance, as well as ASEAN’s central role and ASEAN-led mechanisms.

(VOVWORLD) - Egypt on Friday confirmed its first Covid-19 case, making it the first in Africa. Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Mugahed said in a statement on Friday that the affected person was a "foreigner" who did not show any serious symptoms.

(VOVWORLD) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on the international community to be united against the current complicated global political development at the annual Munich security conference in Munich on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Friday asked relevant agencies to closely monitor isolated people under guidance of the Ministry of Health and resolutely evoke working permit of foreign workers who need to be isolated but leave the isolation areas.

(VOVWORLD) - The embassies of Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia in Ukraine on February 13 held a programme to introduce ASEAN culture and cuisine, as part of the popularisation efforts in Vietnam’s ASEAN Chair Year 2020 in the country.

(VOVWORLD) - The security forces of Vietnam and Brunei have agreed to bolster comprehensive collaboration, particularly in the fight against traditional and non-traditional crimes.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, as Chairman of ASEAN in 2020, has issued a statement on ASEAN’s joint response to the outbreak of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), in the face of complicated development of the epidemic.

(VOVWORLD) - The Czech Lower House on Thursday adopted a resolution supporting a number of international agreements including the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Grand Prix is expected to go ahead on April 5 despite concerns over the coronavirus, says Formula 1's managing director Ross Brawn.

(VOVWORLD) - A report by securities firm SSI on the January financial and monetary market released on Thursday says the securities market for the first quarter of 2020 would have prospered thanks to the US-China agreement and increase of foreign inflow were it not for the Covid-19 epidemic.