The World Health Organization (WHO) has just said that it is considering an offer from an unnamed vaccine manufacturer in Vietnam to become a center for the production of COVID-19 vaccines using mRNA technology, according to Reuters. Last week, Vietnamese…
Vietnam has just recorded one more death from coronavirus while the number of new infections per day rose to a new record, causing many residential and local communities to be locked down to prevent the spread of the disease in…
At a regular press conference on May 13, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang raised Hanoi’s position against China’s dispatch of nearly 300 ships to Whitsun Reef which is a part of the Truong Sa (Spratlys) where Vietnam…
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on global economies over the past year, causing economic clusters or slowing growth in many countries. How does that affect budgets and defense spending in a world full of hotspots and at…
On May 12, the US State Department released a 2020 report on Vietnam’s religious freedom, which noted that some unrecognized religious groups continued to be harassed by the government, such as threats harass, conflict, discrimination between religious groups, interfering internal…
Vietnam’s government has called for “copyright exemption” to the Covid-19 vaccine and also said it would “produce vaccines by themselves for domestic use next year.” Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, May 13, called on countries to share information,…
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on May 12 that Japan “strongly opposes” China’s growing assertiveness at sea in a phone call with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Tokyo is deeply concerned about “unilateral efforts to change the status quo in…
Vietnamese airlines have been excited about direct flights to the US. However, the biggest difficulty is not technical, but commercial, even under the controlled Covid 19 pandemic. Ambition to flight to the US In early November last year, Bamboo Airways…
At a meeting with voters to “campaign for elections” on May 9 in Haiphong, National Assembly’s Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said that if he continues to be elected as a member of the parliament and its chairman of the 15th…
The Vietnamese leaders have just promised to submit to the 15th National Assembly to “promptly” revise the 2013 Land Law, a controversial law in the communist country that considers land to be owned by the state. On the morning of…