February 11, 2022

US deepens relationship with Indo-Pacific allies, partners

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii this week to engage with Indo-Pacific allies and partners to advance peace, resilience, and prosperity across the region and demonstrate that these partnerships deliver. In Australia, Blinken attended the fourth Quad Foreign Ministers Ministerial Meeting, hosted

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French virologist who co-discovered HIV dies

 French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering HIV that causes AIDS, has died, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. Montagnier, who was 89, shared half of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine with fellow French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi for their role in

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Vietnam women’s football team receives more bonuses after historic win

– The national women’s football team received more bonuses after making history by winning a ticket to the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time. During a celebration in Hanoi on Friday, they were awarded additional 333,000 USD from the Hanoi People’s Committee, the Vietnam Football Federation, Acecook Vietnam and Vinamilk.

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UNDP, UNFPA pledge to help Vietnam’s post-pandemic recovery

   Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Hoang Giang has praised contributions by UN agencies to socio-economic development in Vietnam, and their support for its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.  Mr. Giang met separately with Resident Representative of the UN Development Program (UNDP) in Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen and the UN Population Fund

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Plan announced to preserve Oc Eo-Ba The special national relic site

An Giang provincial authorities on Thursday announced a plan for preserving and restoring Oc Eo–Ba The, a special national relic site of the ancient Oc Eo civilization. The plan aims to promote the relic site as a place for archaeological research on the Oc Eo civilization, which had a major influence on

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US to host 2023 APEC summit

  The United States will host the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual meeting next year, according to the White House. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, in a statement on Thursday, thanked APEC for accepting the US’s offer to host, and said President Biden’s administration is committed to

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