(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese government will provide an advance to pay for the repatriation of the bodies of victims found dead last month in a container lorry in Essex, the UK.

(VOVWORLD) - Turkish and Russian troops held the ninth round of joint land patrols on Wednesday in northern Syria under a deal reached last month for the withdrawal of Syrian Kurdish fighters, said the Turkish Defense Ministry.

(VOVWORLD) - Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem met with visiting Czech Minister for the Environment Richard Brabec on Thursday, saying how the environment is a highly potential field for bilateral cooperation.

(VOVWORLD) - Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh hosted a reception for Andy Kinsella, Chief Executive Officer of Ireland’s Mainstream Renewable Power, in Hanoi on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Greece will shut down overcrowded refugee camps on islands facing Turkey and replace them with new closed facilities with a capacity of at least 5,000 people each.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Wednesday that France will absorb more than 11 billion USD of public hospital debt in an emergency measure designed to end months of protests by doctors and nurses.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese and Chinese working groups on cooperation in less sensitive marine areas held their 13th round of negotiations in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Bac Lieu Culture-Tourism Week themed opened in Bac Lieu city in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The US is one of Vietnam’s most important partners in defense cooperation, Politburo member Tran Quoc Vuong said at a reception on Wednesday for US Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held a meeting in Hanoi on Wednesday with female deputies and leaders of National Assembly agencies.