The U.S. Department of State intends to provide $5 million to establish the YSEALI Academy at Fulbright University Vietnam in HCM City, to deliver capacity-building seminars to entry-to mid-level professionals aged 25-40 from across Southeast Asia around the themes of technology and innovation, public policy, and entrepreneurship. 

The Vietnamese and Japanese governments signed and exchanged notes on non-refundable aid for COVID-19 prevention and control on Monday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has extended his condolences to the families of three children killed by a school gate collapse that also injured three others at a primary school in Lào Cai Province on Monday.

Two Vietnamese interns have gone missing after Super Typhoon Haishen swept through Kyushu Island, southwest of Japan early yesterday, the Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka prefecture confirmed.

Lê Quốc Cường, deputy director of HCM City’s Information and Communication Department, talks to Thanh Niên (Young People) online newspaper about the ongoing project to build a high-quality surveillance camera system in the city. The department has been assigned to be a focal point to implement the project.

Twenty-three COVID-19 patients made a full recovery and were released from treatment facilities in Đà Nẵng and central Quảng Nam Province on September 7.

HCM City plans to develop inland waterway transport in its south-southwest area to meet socio-economic development needs.