Next week will mark the 30th anniversary of this newspaper, the Việt Nam News, born out of the need to inform the locally stationed press and foreign corps on what's going on locally on a daily basis in 1991, shortly before the end of the Cold War.

More than 93,000 students in Hà Nội are set to take the high school entrance exams this weekend and measures are in place to ensure COVID-19 safety, according to officials.

Factory workers in industrial parks in the two northern provinces of Bắc Giang and Bắc Ninh are moving into their companies' dormitories in a bid to kickstart production after weeks of temporary shutdown due to COVID-19.

The HCM City Department of Health has instructed the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Củ Chi District Hospital to make plans to admit COVID-19 patients if the number of cases in the city increases significantly.