The COVID-19 pandemic has posed great challenges to the Government, but the Government’s proactiveness was key to helping Việt Nam devise effective solutions in the fight against the pandemic, said Nguyễn Thế Trung, a member of the E-Government Advisory Group of the Office of the Government.

The university admission scores this year increased compared to 2019 as expected with information technology, computer science, international economics, marketing attracting a large number of candidates.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang is facing increasing erosion along rivers and canals, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The 84-year-old Đỗ Thị Mơ of Thường Xuân District in the central province of Thanh Hoá has become known across Việt Nam after she asked local authorities not to classify her household as 'poor' in September last year.