A 23-year-old woman in Đà Lạt City was detained on Monday on suspicion of selling milk tea mixed with cannabis, an illegal substance in Việt Nam.
These are among the 811,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines that Việt Nam received via COVAX Facility, the global COVID-19 vaccine sharing scheme, on April 1, adding to the 111,000 doses bought from the company that had been used in the first-phase of the inoculation drive.
Seventeen bridges were inaugurated in the southern province of Long An on April 15 as part of the Rural Bridge Programme funded by enterprises following an appeal by former President Trương Tấn Sang and Nông Thôn Việt magazine.
The HCM City Department of Transport has asked the city government to give priority in the next five years to six key transport projects worth VNĐ27.488 trillion (US$1.19 billion) in order to clear congestion on roads leading to ports, especially Cát Lái Port in District 2.
Bùi Minh Tuân, lecturer at the Meteorology and Oceanography Faculty under the Hà Nội University of Natural Sciences, has been nominated for the Tạ Quang Bửu Award this year for his research on weather forecasting.
Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City, the country’s largest, has been crowded in the last few days and people have had to queue up for hours.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has issued a directive urging ministries and government agencies to ensure traffic safety during the national holidays marking Reunification Day and May Day.
At least three people were killed in a flash flood that swept through Văn Bàn District, in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai, over the weekend.
With a coastline of 102km, Thanh Hóa Province has a long fishing history. However, offshore fishing fleets in the province are struggling while fewer locals are involved in fishing.
HCM City has received an additional 58,250 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine out of the 811,200 doses from the COVAX Facility for the second phase of the vaccination drive, according to the city's Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention.
Tuition fees at some major universities in HCM City such as the University of Medicine Phạm Ngọc Thạch will increase sharply for the next school year, causing many parents and students to worry.
More than one in five workers in the service sector reported negative impacts from the pandemic in the first quarter, while those in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector were least affected, with just 7.5 per cent of workers reporting negative impacts.