Việt Nam News

Electronics retailer Nguyễn Kim has started selling essential items such as rice, sugar, salt, and canned foods under a programme it has dubbed “Nguyễn Kim sells essential products to increase convenience for customers" amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The central city has commenced construction of a west ring road and bridge to ease congestion on National Highway1A and link Highway 14B with the southeast urban zone.

Transport companies will be exempt from service fees for the time being having cut back on passengers to minimise the spread of COVID-19.

The curriculum will be streamlined in the second semester of the 2019-20 school year but will ensure students received fundamental knowledge.

"Go home please, people are rushing home and so should you!" This call has been repeated time and again in recent days as mothers urge their children who are studying overseas to retun home in the midst of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic

The number of recipients of unemployment benefits nationwide rose by 9.11 per cent to 378,000 people during the first quarter of 2020 as many businesses were forced to suspend operations or went bankrupt due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a meeting in Hà Nội on Tuesday to review the implementation of several social policy issues for the 2012-20 period adopted by the fifth plenum of the 11th Party Central Committee. 

Four people who visited Buddha Bar in HCM City and one patient at Bạch Mai Hospital in Hà Nội are among the eleven latest SARS-CoV-2 infection cases confirmed on Tuesday evening, bringing the total number in Việt Nam to 134.

The central province of Quang Ngai has established Đức Phổ District as a new town following a decision released on Tuesday, making it the first town in the province.

The health sector has called on everyone to work together in strengthening awareness of Tuberculosis (TB) and further actions from relevant authorities and leaders in the fight against TB in Việt Nam.

Authorities in HCM City have ordered the closure of all restaurants, beer clubs and beauty centres from 6pm on Tuesday 24 March. 

An oil tanker caught fire on a river in Đồng Nai Province on Monday, leaving two dead and one missing.

Oxygen depletion is allegedly responsible for killing tonnes of fish in Bắc Ninh Province’s Cầu River since last week.

A murder has been reported at Quảng An Pagoda in southern Bình Thuận Province’s Tân Nghĩa Town, killing a monk and a volunteer and leaving another in critical condition, the provincial Investigation Police Department has said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the shutdown of unnecessary services, especially restaurants and karaoke bars, to minimise large gatherings as part of measures to prevent further spreading of COVID-19.