June 20, 2021

130 more cases of COVID-19 added Sunday noon

(VOVWORLD) – Vietnam confirmed 130 more COVID-19 community transmissions Sunday noon, raising the ongoing coronavirus wave’s tally in the country to 9,850. 34 of the new cases were recorded in HCM city, 53 in Bac Giang, 18 in Da Nang, 13 in Binh Duong, 9 in Bac Ninh, 1 each in

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New US nuke envoy arrives in Seoul

(VOVWORLD) -The new US special representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, arrived in Seoul on Saturday for talks with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts, as they seek a coordinated strategy to resume nuclear diplomacy with Pyongyang. It marks Kim’s first visit to Seoul since he was appointed the chief

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Tokyo cancels public viewing sites for summer Olympics

(VOVWORLD) -Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has decided to cancel all public viewing sites for the summer Olympics, diverting some venues to be COVID-19 vaccination centres instead. Speaking to the press after a discussion with Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide, Ms. Koike said some of the 6 public venues, planned to hold

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Iran presidential election: Ebrahim Raisi wins

(VOVWORLD) – Ebrahim Raisi, the hardline head of Iran’s judiciary, has won the country’s presidential election after preliminary results showed that he secured 62 % of the votes, much more than his nearest rival. Outgoing President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Raisi while Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei welcomed the results of the

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Vietnam’s fresh lychees hit the shelves in Netherlands

(VOVWORLD) – Residents of Spijkenisse city in the Netherlands were invited to taste Vietnamese lychees on Saturday at Thanh Hung supermarket. This was part of the program “Vietnam fresh golden lychees – Taste it, love it” organized by the trade office of Vietnam in the Netherlands and the LTP Import

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Two more die of COVID-19 in Vietnam

(VOVWORLD) – Vietnam confirmed 2 new deaths from COVID-19-related complications, raising the pandemic death toll in the country to 66. The latest fatalities are men aged 53 and 80. Both of them were being treated for a number of underlying health conditions. The 53-year-old, from the northern province of Vinh

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500,000 doses of China’s COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Vietnam

(VOVWORLD) – A flight transporting 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm, China, landed at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi on Sunday. The Vero Cell vaccine is planned to be used to vaccinate Chinese citizens working in Vietnam, Vietnamese who want to go to China for study, work or business, and

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