More than 500 Vietnamese citizens have returned home from Europe and the United States on May 15 and 16, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dozens of poor and underprivileged children have been given old bicycles, notebooks and financial support by soldiers from the Quỳ Châu District Military Command in the central province of Nghệ An.

Construction on the Dầu Giây-Phan Thiết Expressway is expected to start in the third quarter, according to Nguyễn Ngọc Đông, deputy minister of transport.

Coronavirus has claimed more than 300,000 lives worldwide, but one critically ill pensioner has survived thanks to Vietnamese doctors' efforts .

Another passenger returning to Việt Nam from Russia has tested positive for COVID-19.