01-06-2020 17:51
BRASILIA: Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Latin America have surged past 1 million, while hard-hit Britain and Russia eased lockdowns on Monday (Jun 1), despite not having their outbreaks fully under control.
29-05-2020 09:12
LONDON: Golf's European Tour will resume on Jul 22 with a run of six tournaments over six weeks in the UK, starting with the British Masters, it was announced on Thursday (May 28).
28-05-2020 09:11
PARIS: The French prosecutor's office said on Wednesday (May 27) that 26 people have been arrested in France and Belgium in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in the back of a truck near London last year.
27-05-2020 08:00
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government was hit by its first resignation on Tuesday (May 26) over the controversy surrounding top aide Dominic Cummings' cross-country trip during the coronavirus lockdown.
26-05-2020 11:31
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday (May 25) failed to draw a line under a scandal over his top aide Dominic Cummings allegedly breaching coronavirus rules as pressure mounted on the Brexit mastermind to go.
23-05-2020 09:11
LONDON: Formula One's hopes of hosting two races at Silverstone were dealt a blow on Friday (May 22) as elite sport was not handed any exemption to the UK government's plans to introduce a 14-day quarantine period for those entering the country.
20-05-2020 10:24
Secretary of the Hanoi municipal Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue on May 19 hosted a reception for General Director of AEONMALL Vietnam Co. Ltd. Tetsuyuki Nakagawa.
20-05-2020 09:26
LONDON: Britain's official coronavirus death toll is at least 41,000 with almost 10,000 dead in care homes in England and Wales alone, according to a statistical update released on Tuesday (May 19).
13-05-2020 16:05
LONDON: Britain's economy shrank two per cent in the first three months of the year, rocked by the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, official data showed Wednesday (May 13), with analysts predicting even worse to come.
07-05-2020 08:00
Vietnam is becoming a prospective hub for British startups, with the country strengthening its position on the global technology scene amid the recent boom in the startup community. Natalie Black, Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Asia-Pacific at the United Kingdom's Department for International Trade, told VIR’s Thanh Van about the trend of the British startup community in Vietnam.
04-05-2020 08:51
Vietnam’s top four network providers, namely VNPT, Vinaphone, Viettel, and MobiFone, are listed among top 150 most valuable and strongest telecom brands worldwide in 2020, according to an annual report recently released by UK-based Brand Finance.
27-04-2020 08:57
The World Health Organisation (WHO)'s medical product evaluation agency has sent a letter informing the certification of the SARS-CoV-2 testing kit LightPower iVA SARS-CoV-2 1st RT-rPCR, which was jointly produced by Vietnam Military Medical University and Viet A Company.
17-04-2020 08:00
Vietnam on April 16 presented medical supplies as gifts of its government and people to their Japanese counterparts to support them in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
16-04-2020 15:07
The online meeting with the prime minister and leaders of assorted economic sectors, branches, and localities discussing wide-ranging measures to support and help remove difficulties for businesses and local people, as well as ensuring social order and welfare took place last week in Hanoi. Ho Quoc Tuan, lecturer at UK University of Bristol, shares his thoughts after observing the meeting.
14-04-2020 09:33
A British patient of the coronavirus was discharged from hospital in Hanoi on the evening of 13 after recovery and boarded a flight to the UK with his wife who was also a COVID-19 patient.