(VOVWORLD) - The UN General Assembly last week elected 5 non-permanent members to the UN Security Council for the 2021-2022 term. The new term won’t begin until next year, but the Council and its newly-elected members – India, Mexico, Norway, Ireland, and Kenya – are already aware of challenges and expectations.
(VOVWORLD) - Patient 91, Vietnam’s most critically ill Covid-19 patient, has been recovering well since he was transferred from the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital of Tropical Diseases to Cho Ray Hospital. Associate Professor Doctor Luong Ngoc Khue, Director of the Health Ministry’s Department of Medical Treatment Management, said the patient can now breathe by himself. The doctors say he can be transferred from intensive care to the rehabilitation ward.
(VOVWORLD) - In 2015 the UN General Assembly designated June 21 as Yoga International Day. In Vietnam, the 6th Yoga International Day is being celebrated in several provinces cross Vietnam until Sunday.
(VOVWORLD) - Preparatory meetings for the ASEAN-36 Summit began in Vietnam on Monday with the COVID-19 pandemic still disrupting life around the world. Vietnam, as this year’s ASEAN Chair, is doing its best to ensure that the summit is a success despite the difficult circumstances.
(VOVWORLD) - The mid-year session, which concluded on Friday, was special in the history of the National Assembly. Major decisions were made, opening doors to expanding trade with the European Union and laying a foundation for National Assembly reform.
(VOVWORLD) - Freedom of speech and freedom of press are fundamental human rights that Vietnam is committed under the general principles of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. But this is a sensitive issue that hostile, reactionary forces always abuse to sabotage the Party, State, and the socialist regime in Vietnam. They always fail thanks to the promotion of freedom of speech and the press in Vietnam.
(VOVWORLD) -South Korea’s military sources on Wednesday said North Korea has blown up a joint liaison office near the border town of Kaesong, sparking international concern about an unexpected scenario on the Korean peninsula which is still technically at war.
(VOVWORLD) - In the three weeks since new racial discrimination protests were triggered by the killing of an unarmed black man by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the protests have continued to spread across the US.
(VOVWORLD) - In the past two days, National Assembly deputies have been discussing ways to restore Vietnam’s economy in the post-COVID-19 period. Vietnam’s successful containment of the pandemic should allow it to attract investment and promote its new digital economy In the past two days, National Assembly deputies have been discussing ways to restore Vietnam’s economy in the post-COVID-19 period. Vietnam’s successful containment of the pandemic should allow it to attract investment and promote its new digital economy
(VOVWORLD) - Relations between the two Koreas have been frozen since North Korea cut off all communications with South Korea, including a line at an inter-Korean liaison office, military lines, and a hotline between South Korea's Presidential Office and North Korea's Workers' Party. The inter-Korean ties are once again at risk.
