The main festival day commemorating the Hùng Vương (Hùng King), considered the founders of Việt Nam, starts on Wednesday with a solemn incense offering ceremony conducted at the main temple in the northern province of Phú Thọ.

Party and State leaders and citizens nationwide on Wednesday commemorated the death anniversary of the Hùng Kings.

A total of 14,386 people, mostly frontline medical staff, received COVID-19 vaccine shots on Tuesday, bringing the total number of vaccinated people in the country to 106,929 in 27 localities in the two phases of the vaccination drive, according to a report released on Wednesday by the health ministry.

Hoa Sen University has been accredited with four out of five stars by the UK’s Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Stars university rating system.

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The Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City is adding more staff, opening early check-in counters, and using all available security scanners to reduce increasing congestion at the site. 

The Singapore International Foundation’s (SIF) Young Social Entrepreneurs (YSE) Global programme is back this year as a digital experience, undeterred by restrictions imposed by the pandemic to continue nurturing young global change makers.

Whenever someone has a medical emergency in a small hamlet in central Quảng Ngãi Province, villagers put the patient in a hammock and carry them 10km to reach an ambulance or the nearest clinic.