The Vietnamese government has focused on dealing with plastic waste pollution and ocean plastic waste in recent years by renewing legal documents and policies on environmental protection.

While Vietnam is ranked 16th among the countries possessing the highest biodiversity globally with rare and precious genetic resources, the country is facing a rapid degradation of biodiversity and other great challenges such as environmental pollution, land degradation, ocean plastic waste and other extreme impacts of climate change.

VOV.VN - Deputy Foreign Minister Do Hung Viet joined with 300 senior officials, researchers, and scholars from more than 30 countries worldwide to attend the sixth Indian Ocean Conference (IOC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which took place from May 12 to May 13.

VOV.VN - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang recently attended the second EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Stockholm.

VOV.VN - Dang Thanh Ngan was announced on May 5 as the Vietnamese representative at the Miss Supranational 2023 pageant which is scheduled to take place in Poland in July.

VOV.VN - Magazine Travel+Leisure of the United States recently named Regent Phu Quoc resort in the southern province of Kien Giang among the 100 best new hotels in the world for 2023.

Offshore renewable energy was the centre of discussion at the 10th Ocean Dialogue in the central province of Khanh Hoa on March 23.

VOV.VN - The nations hopes that the United States and China will continue to resolve disagreements through dialogue and on the basis of the UN Charter and international law, thereby contributing to peace, stability, co-operation, and development in the region, as well as the wider world.

VOV.VN - The playoff match in the Davis Cup World Group II between Vietnam and Indonesia is scheduled to take place on February 4 and February 5 at Hanaka Paris Ocean Park in the northern province of Bac Ninh.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also known as the Montego Bay Convention that made its way in the world on December 10, 1982, was a great step towards maintaining the freedom of navigation and has served as a basis for the development of marine activities and ocean conservation.