Vietnam

The first Namaste Vietnam Festival started with a packed house at Ho Chi Minh City's landmark Independence Palace on August 13. The month-long Festival, coordinated by Captain Rahul Bali, is part of the 75th anniversary of Indian independence as well as the 50th anniversary of India-Vietnam diplomatic relations. It aspires to increase cultural interchange and collaboration between the nations in commerce, investment, tourism, education, and… read-more

Aiming for progressive defence security, India and Vietnam signed a vision document to strengthen bilateral ties in defence cooperation. The agreement was between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Vietnamese counterpart General Phan Van Giang, during a meeting on June 8. Notably, the Union Minister is on a three-day visit to Vietnam and conducted meetings with Vietnamese leaders. Furthermore, the joint vision document will provide… read-more

Vietnam will remove its Covid-19 restrictions on international passenger flights with all markets from February 15. Also, the frequency of flights will be restored to the pre-pandemic level. The country had resumed international flights with 15 markets, in the beginning of 2022. China has not yet agreed to resume commercial flights with Vietnam. Notably, the nation has recorded nearly 2.5 million Covid-19 cases since the onset of the pandemic… read-more

After donating 30 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to Asian nations, Japan pledges to donate 60 million doses on September 23. Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga also confirmed the decision to double the vaccine's donation at a global summit held in the US. Vietnam, Taiwan, and Indonesia are among the beneficiary nation. So far, nearly 55 percent of Japan's population is fully vaccinated, equating to the US vaccine number. 

A new research study has shown that East Asians may have been subjected to Coronavirus 20,000 years ago. The outbreak has left traces in the DNA of people in modern China, Vietnam, and Japan. More than 2,500 people from 26 different regions were subjected to genomes analysis through cutting-edge computation. It is also to be noted that MERS and SARS viruses belong to the same family as Coronavirus.