VOV.VN - Ensuring water security and the safety of water supplies is of paramount importance as both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are threatening socio-economic development of countries worldwide, according to a leading expert in water supply.

Vietnamese and Chinese competent agencies will strengthen cooperation in crime combat, and push ahead with the signing of an agreement on the transfer of sentenced persons.

VOV.VN - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced his nation's decision to donate an additional 400,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam in September during his telephone talks with President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 15.

VOV.VN - The overall number of infections during the latest wave of the pandemic rose to more than 641,000 following an additional 10, 585 COVID-19 cases being detected by the Ministry of Health on September 15.

The Vietnamese embassy in Singapore on September 15 received the first batch of medical supplies donated by Singapore's Temasek Foundation to help Vietnam deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minister Counselor Nguyen Phuong Anh, deputy head of Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations in Geneva, underlined the need for countries to strengthen solidarity and close cooperation to effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The country needs to improve the capacity of the local health system in order to deal with the spread of infectious diseases and develop a concrete strategy in the new normal as part of the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, according to health experts.

VOV.VN - The Hanoi administration conducted a large-scale vaccination campaign against COVID-19 for foreigners living, studying, and working in the capital from September 15.

Consumption in Vietnam could grow by US$130 billion over the next decade as Asia continues to be the world’s consumption growth engine, a new report from McKinsey has revealed.

VOV.VN - Vietnam always places great importance on developing the ties of friendship and neighborliness and comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership with China, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has said.