Saturday, January 16, 2021, 07:50 GMT+7
Border guards at Xin Cai border station in Ha Giang Province discover people making illegal entry into Vietnam. Photo: Nam Tran /Tuoi Tre
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Politics Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held talks with U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien on Friday. Party General Secretary, State President Nguyen Phu Trong has sent a congratulatory message to newly-elected General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee Thongloun Sisoulith.
Society Vietnam on Friday confirmed five new imported COVID-19 cases, including an American man who flew from the U.S. to Singapore and took flight SQ178 to Ho Chi Minh City on December 31, 2020, bringing the patient tally to 1,536, with 1,380 recoveries and 35 virus-related deaths.