Vietnamese athletes competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will fly back home on August 4, wrapping up their journey at the global sporting event.

Foreign ministers of ASEAN member countries and the US agreed to continue prioritising the COVID-19 response and support for sustainable recovery during a meeting held via videoconference on August 4.

The European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement has created a favourable corridor for trade between the two sides and brought new impetus to economic cooperation between Vietnam and the EU. Nguyen Van Thao, head of the Mission of Vietnam to the EU, made the remark in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has underlined four groups of solutions to boost post-pandemic economic recovery and development in the Mekong sub-region.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, as the coordinator of ASEAN-Japan relations, co-chaired the ASEAN-Japan Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held via videoconference on August 3 together with his Japanese counterpart Motegi Toshimitsu.

At the 22nd ASEAN+3 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, ASEAN and its partners – China, Japan and the Republic of Korea – agreed that priority should be given to their cooperation in response to COVID-19 and mitigation of its impacts on socio-economic perfornmance, as well as promoting comprehensive recovery towards sustainable development.

After 9 years of negotiations, with the participation of more than 150 countries and many international organisations, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was officially adopted on April 30, 1982, and opened for signature on December 10 of the same year in Montego Bay, Jamaica. 107 countries signed the Convention on the first day, including Vietnam.

Hanoi’s special historical relic Hoa Lo Prison now has an official podcast channel on music streaming service Spotify, aiming to bring the Vietnamese history closer to public audience, particularly young people.

Photographs depicting the beauty of the mountains and common culture of mountaineering between Vietnam and Italy are being displayed at a dual exhibition at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi.

Vietnam is set to receive COVID-19 vaccine donations from the governments of the UK and the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has announced.

The National Assembly on July 26 elected Nguyen Xuan Phuc as State President and Pham Minh Chinh as Prime Minister. People nationwide have pinned their hopes on the country’s new leaders adopting stronger measures against COVID-19 and helping the country record even greater socio-economic achievements.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has recently issued the Vietnamese Youth Development Strategy for the 2021-2030 period, aiming to build a contingent of Vietnamese youths who have a strong sense of patriotism, dynamism, creativity, and science-technology mastery, among others.

The Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports has proposed that the capital’s People’s Committee adopt its plan to preserve the Vuon Chuoi archaeological site in Kim Chung commune in Hoai Duc district, which is believed to be the city’s first human settlement.

Hundreds of medical staff from around the country have set off to help southern provinces over the last few days, where the number of Covid-19 infections has been increasing rapidly. Responding to a call from the Ministry of Health, staff at the Friendship Hospital in Hanoi have provided assistance in fighting the outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City.