The Vietnamese Ministry of Defence on Monday received 200,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines and 201,600 single-use syringes donated by their Chinese counterpart.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vương Đình Huệ will lead a Vietnamese NA delegation at the 42nd General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-42), which is scheduled to open in Brunei via videoconference format on Monday.

HCM City on Saturday issued rules for the heightened period of COVID-19 prevention and control starting Monday, as the authorities insisted the next two weeks are not a hard lockdown or an “state of emergency”.

Hà Nội’s authorities decided on Friday to extend social distancing order until 6:00am of September 6, 2021, amid new COVID-19 infections in the community and complicated developments in many other localities.

 Deputy head of Việt Nam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Ambassador Pham Hải Anh urged international cooperation and solidarity in order to seek the most effective response to combat terrorism in the face of a serious threat posed by the so-called Islamic State’s activities in recent times.

The seventh dialogue evaluating arising sea-related issues from the perspective of international law was held virtually on Thursday, drawing more than 250 domestic and foreign experts, as well as delegates from foreign representative agencies in Hà Nội and the media.