Việt Nam News

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn early Monday inspected the medical preparedness at the National Convention Centre where the 13th National Party Congress is being held, before the first preparatory session got underway.

The HCM City Power Corporation is set to place 500km of medium-voltage cables and 800km of low-voltage cables underground in the next five years.

The drivers of overloaded trucks on the Thăng Long Bridge in Hà Nội are being strictly fined to protect the bridge, said Phan Thị Thu Hiền, deputy director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN).

The health ministry’s Medical Service Administration in collaboration with AstraZeneca Vietnam launched a communication campaign on improving community awareness in asthma management in Hà Nội on Saturday.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society’s HCM City chapter on January 23 began the Lễ Hội Xuân Hồng (Red Spring) blood donation campaign as part of its annual efforts to mitigate the blood shortage during the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Vietnamese expatriates in Cambodia pin high hopes on the upcoming 13th National Party Congress, expecting for more effective policies and guidelines to support Vietnamese nationals who have always turned their hearts to the homeland.

Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to Việt Nam Kidong Park praised Việt Nam’s achievements in COVID-19 prevention and control in an interview given to Việt Nam News.

No new COVID-19 cases reported on Saturday

The HCM City Export Processing Zone and Industrial Park Authority Business Association (HBA) on January 22 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with E-wallet SmartPay and Era Group to develop welfare supermarkets for workers at the city export processing zones and industrial parks.

Science and technology are key to agricultural production, allowing for increases in the capacity and quality of products and improving farmers’ lives.

In Nhật Tân Village these days, the laughter mixed with the enthusiastic working atmosphere of the peach farmers in the cold weather reminds us that spring is approaching.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in Việt Nam. On January 23, 2020, a man visiting from China tested positive for coronavirus.

Seven men have been jailed for a total of more than 92 years in connection with the 39 Vietnamese citizens found dead at the back of a lorry in the United Kingdom in October 2019.

The animal protection organisation Humane Society International and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines began a campaign against the consumption of rhino horn consumption by screening a short film, titled ‘When I Grow Up’, on all Vietnam Airlines flights as well as in premium airline lounges across Việt Nam. 

More than 1,500 poor people, of which 1,000 were children, in flood-affected Nam Trà My district of Quảng Nam Province received free examinations and medicine in a joint-health care charity programme by the Đà Nẵng-Hoàn Mỹ Hospital and VinaCapital Foundation.