The COVID-19 pandemic has been gradually put under control across Vietnam, especially in hotbeds such as Ho Chi Minh City and its neighboring provinces of Binh Duong, Dong Nai and Long An, according to Sunday’s online conference of the Steering Committees for COVID-19 Prevention and Control of 63 provinces and cities nationwide.
The Taliban on Saturday pledged to step up security at Shi’ite mosques after a suicide attack on the Fatima mosque in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province claimed the lives of at least 60 people. Kandahar’ police chief said security units will be assigned to protect the Shi’ite mosques which have so far
– 17 American missionaries and their family members, including children, were reportedly kidnapped by gang members on Saturday in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, a source in Haiti’s security forces said. According to the source, the missionaries were kidnapped from a bus that was on its way to the airport to drop
– The Vietnamese Innovation Network in Europe (VINEU) made its debut at a ceremony held at the Embassy of Vietnam in Germany and via videoconference on Saturday. Nguyen Manh Hai, Counsellor in charge of investment at the Embassy, underlined that the VINEU will offer a platform to intellectuals and scientists in
Russian gas consumption is running at a record high but Moscow is still ready to increase supplies to Europe should it receive such requests, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Saturday. Novak did not say how large Russia’s gas reserves were but estimated that European underground facilities were
Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc has proposed that Pfizer, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, cooperate with Vietnam in the production of COVID-19 treatment drugs and accelerate efforts to have an effective and safe vaccine for children. Mr. Ngoc was speaking at a meeting
A get-together and exhibition on Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims in Vietnam has been held in Brussels, Belgium, by the Belgium – Vietnam Association (ABV). Friday’s event was attended by Tran To Nga, a Vietnamese French woman and an AO victim, who lodged a lawsuit against US firms that manufactured the toxic AO defoliant
