VOV.VN - Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien and Japanese Vice Minister of Defence Masami Oka co-chaired the ninth Vietnam-Japan Defence Policy Dialogue in Tokyo on March 13.

VOV.VN - Thai Hai reserve area, home to an ecological house-on-stilts village in the northern province of Thai Nguyen, was named as one of the 32 Best Tourism Villages 2022 by the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), during a ceremony held on March 12 in Saudi Arabia.

VOV.VN - A total of 17 Vietnamese enterprises are participating in the 2023 Seafood Expo North America, with the event opening on March 12 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Centre in Massachusetts in the United States.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has made several contributions to the UN’s Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement.

More women than ever are holding political decision-making posts worldwide, but gender parity is still far off, said the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in a report released on March 7.

UN Under-Secretary-General Atul Khare visited Vietnam's Engineering Unit Rotation 1 at the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) on March 6, during which he thanked the Vietnamese peacekeeping forces in Abyei for their positive and effective contributions to UN peacekeeping operations, bringing a better life to local communities.

VOV.VN - Andrew Patrick, the UK’s Migration and Modern Slavery Envoy, made his first visit to the nation from March 6 to March 7, with the visit coming on the 50th anniversary of UK-Vietnam diplomacy, as well as the fifth anniversary of implementation of a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on co-operation in tackling human trafficking.

Vietnam ranked fourth out of 20 countries with the largest volume of plastic waste discharged into the sea.

VOV.VN - Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), on March 3 appreciated the active and effective contributions, creativeness and efforts to overcome difficulties of medical officers and soldiers of the level-2 field hospital and peacekeepers of Vietnam at the UNMISS.

VOV.VN - The first-ever book festival on gender equality is being held from March 4 to March 11 at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi.