VOV.VN - Delicious local cuisine is the main reason for female Japanese travelers to choose Vietnam as their favourite post-pandemic destination, according to the ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC).

VOV.VN - Roughly 5,500 workers in the Tan Thuan export processing zone in Ho Chi Minh City were inoculated against the COVID-19 pandemic on June 20 as part of the southern city’s widespread vaccination campaign.

Representatives of the Lao province of Oudomxay on June 18 handed over LAK260 million (around US$27,600) to the Vietnamese Consulate General in Luang Prabang province to support the three Vietnamese provinces of Dien Bien, Son La and Lai Chau in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The nation recorded 78 more COVID-19 infections, including 76 domestic cases and two imported ones, in the past 12 hours to 6:00 am on June 20, taking the national tally to 12,978, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) recently reported to the Ministry of Transport (MoT) on a project to establish the first cargo airline in Vietnam.

The Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) on June 18 welcomed the first flow of gas from Su Tu Trang (White Lion) oil field in phase 2A.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health and the Unilever Vietnam Foundation came together on June 19 to release a joint video clip of the 5K Dance aiming to boost the country’s efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The Treatment Subcommittee under the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control confirmed two deaths caused by COVID-19 pandemic on June 19 in the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Thanh Hoa, thereby raising the death toll caused by the virus to 64.

VOV.VN - A large-scale vaccination campaign to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was launched on June 19 in Ho Chi Minh City, with 836,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine set to be injected into local citizens.

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and re-appointed UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres have affirmed their recognition of the importance to and expressed their elation at the positive developments of the Vietnam-UN relationship over the past time during their online phone talks on June 19.