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The United Kingdom will continue to promote COVID-19 vaccine delivery to Vietnam through the COVAX Facility, Ambassador Gareth Ward assured Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on September 30.

The Vietnamese rice industry needs to develop its own trademark strategy suitable for each market, including the United Kingdom, in order to protect and increase the value of Vietnamese rice as well as its trademark overseas, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in the UK.

Vietnam and the United Kingdom are accelerating negotiations on a new-generation free trade agreement, which is poised to be finalized by the end of this year, according to a webinar running the theme “Vietnam’s Trade and Economic Future: Opportunities for British and Vietnamese Businesses”.

The United Kingdom will use firefighters to help deliver food, retrieve dead bodies and drive ambulances as it braces for the looming peak of the coronavirus outbreak that has already claimed the lives of more than 22,000 people across the world.

All six Vietnamese students taking part in the 60th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2019 won medals at the competition which was held in Bath, the United Kingdom, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Vietnam wants to bolster cooperation with the United Kingdom (UK) in the fields of economy, trade, investment, finance, culture, education, defence and security, said General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong.

Former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned in the UK town of Salisbury in March, secretly visited Estonia in 2016, where he met with local intelligence officers, something that London possibly helped to organize, New York Times reported on Monday.