The HCM City People’s Council has approved a legal framework for the management of urban architecture, with a focus on public land in the city centre, especially near the first metro line’s Bến Thành station.

The HCM City Department of Health’s new guidelines for pandemic assessment in all districts and Thủ Đức city will be based on the rate of new cases in the community, vaccine coverage, and medical facilities’ treatment capacity.

The Prime Minister has assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment to draft strategies and policies on development cooperation with foreign donors in order to improve the efficiency of using official development assistance (ODA) and concessional loans.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu has reduced the number of poor households to 842, or 1.45 per cent of the province’s total households, by providing soft loans, vocational skills, and sustainable livelihood models to the poor.

Phương Tấn Đạt is not someone who hogs the limelight. The 31-year-old would rather take a back seat and avoid being the centre of attention. But Đạt’s relentless volunteering efforts during the COVID pandemic in his home city of Cần Thơ, have earned him the National Volunteer Service Award 2021.

A 12-year-old boy in Hà Nội fell to his death from an apartment building, sparking concerns over children’s mental wellbeing and parents’ negligence on the matter, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc visited and presented gifts to the Hanoi Archdiocese and the Committee for Solidarity of Vietnamese Catholics (CSVC) in the capital city on Thursday.

Several groups of people, including more than 200 children, middle-aged and elderly people as well as 38 disadvantaged students and families, from the Cơ Tu ethnic group in Tây Giang District have received warm clothes and blankets from the Lifestart Foundation.