December 14, 2021

Britian reports first death with Omicron coronavirus variant

At least one person has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, warning that the variant now accounted for 40 per cent of infections in the British capital.  Since the first Omicron cases were detected on Nov.

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Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum opens

 The National Assembly of Vietnam will work closely with the legislatures of other countries to strengthen the multilateral system and promote cooperation toward a peaceful, stable, resilient, and prosperous Asia-Pacific, said National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on Tuesday. At an online plenary session on the role of parliaments in

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Vietnamese film to attend 2022 Sundance Film Festival

  -The Vietnamese fantasy film Maika – Cô bé đến từ hành tinh khác directed by Hàm Trần will represent the country at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Maika – Cô bé đến từ hành tinh khác (Maika – The Girl From Another Planet) is a co-production between the Cinema Department (Ministry of

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Special page launched to promote Vietnamese tourism to foreign visitors

  A special page “ Live Fully in Vietnam” on the website vietnam.travel was officially launched, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism reported on Tuesday. According to VNAT, a theme video of the communication campaign “Live fully in Vietnam” was also introduced

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WHO warns of high global risk from Omicron

 The SARS-COV-2’s latest variant Omicron has spread to 60 countries. There is some evidence that it can evade the antibodies created by existing vaccines, but experts don’t have much clinical data on its virulence. In a report Monday, the World Health Organization reaffirmed that risks from the Omicron variant are very

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Nearly 271 million cases of COVID-19 reported globally

The world has recorded nearly 271 million cases of COVID-19 and more than 5.32 million deaths as of Tuesday. The US continues to record the highest number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 with nearly 819,000 deaths out of a total of nearly 51 million cases; followed by India and Brazil. In

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Vietnam welcomes efforts by Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

-Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Chargé d’Affaires of Vietnam to the United Nations, welcomed efforts by the principals and staff of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the implementation of various provisions of the UN Security Council Resolution 2529 (2020), during a meeting of the UNSC on Tuesday. He

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