(VOVWORLD) - Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh has urged Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy to reform its curriculum and apply science and technology in teaching and learning.

(VOVWORLD) - The 4th Mong ethnic cultural festival opened on Saturday in the northern province of Dien Bien drawing more than 200 artisans, artists and athletes.

(VOVWORLD) - The north of the Philippines has been hit by some of its worst flooding in decades, with torrents of muddy run-off forcing 66,000 from their homes and prompting rescues of trapped locals, authorities said on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Merkel is paying her first visit as chancellor to the site of the Nazi concentration camp and extermination center Auschwitz-Birkenau.

(VOVWORLD) - Maritime search and rescue support vessel of the Russian Navy Igor Belousov is docking at the Cam Ranh international port in the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa from until Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan attended the opening of the Culture and Tourism Week of Hoa Binh province on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The 9th ASEAN Maritime Forum and the 7th Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum (EAMF-7) opened in the central city of Da Nang on Friday gathering over 90 governmental officials and scholars from ten ASEAN nations and eight ASEAN Dialogue Partners.

(VOVWORLD) - The central city of Da Nang, in cooperation with the embassies of Chile, Columbia, Peru and Mexico are hosting the Pacific Alliance Film Festival on December 6-8.

(VOVWORLD) - The United States is bolstering its alliances and partnerships with countries in the Indo-Pacific region amid what it describes as growing "military, economic and political high-end threats emanating from China".

(VOVWORLD) - A seminar on strengthening UN peacekeeping activities was held in the US on Friday.