Việt Nam News

Mong Văn Thành, a seventh-grader of Bắc Lý semi-boarding school for ethnic minorities, browses second-hand books and warm clothes at the charity house in Huồi Tráng 1 Village, Bắc Lý Commune, the central province of Nghệ An.

Vietnam reported 13 new COVID-19 cases over the past 12 hours to 6pm on Monday, March 1, raising the national tally to 2,461, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Djưng from the Ba Na ethnic group in Đê Kjiêng Village, Ayun Commune, Mang Yang District, is now a ranger in the forest that he used to hunt in for a living for many years. 

The COVID-19 pandemic broke out again in many provinces and cities before Tết, greatly affecting the blood supply to hospitals.

Since January 27, to date, the province has recorded over 600 COVID-19 local infections (nearly 300 have recovered), becoming the largest outbreak in the country since the pandemic began early last year, mostly centred around a number of hot spots.

Đà Nẵng plans to become a tourism and sea-based economic hub of Việt Nam by 2030 following its adjusted master plan with a vision to 2045.

The HCM City Urban Environment Company Limited (CITENCO) and HCM City Finance and Investment State-owned Company (HFIC) on Tuesday (Feb 23) signed a strategic co-operation agreement to implement projects related to urban environmental sanitation during the 2021-2025 period.

The Ministry of Transport has urged localities in the southeast region to speed up major transport projects by diversifying the sources of capital over the next five years. 

Thirteen new cases reported, including eight community infections in Hải Dương which are already quarantined. The other five were imported cases. Sixteen people have recovered.

A delivery driver has been hailed a hero after he caught a baby who had fallen from the 13th storey of a Hà Nội apartment block.

The police said they had initially identified 25 people for alleged involvement in the case and have summoned them to the police office.

Local authorities in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region have taken measures to prevent forest fires in the ongoing dry season.

Demand for workers in HCM City and other manufacturing hubs in the south has been high and rising after the Tết (Lunar New Year) holidays driven by a business recovery as COVID-19 recedes.

Phạm Văn Phong decided to return to his hometown of Thịnh Long Township in Hải Hậu District to start up his own business in 2012 after many years working in Hà Nội in unstable and poorly paid jobs.

Nguyễn Hữu Nhân, a lecturer of Việt Nam RMIT University, started a project named 'Refill Đây' (Refill Here) to work with manufacturing businesses to set up mobile refilling stores for retail products such as detergent, cosmetics, spices and dried foods in residential areas so people can bring use own containers to reduce plastic waste.

The HCM City Public Transport Management Centre has announced plans to trial bus lanes on Điện Biên Phủ and Võ Thị Sáu streets during peak hours. 

In Krêl Village in Đức Cơ District of Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands, one ethnic minority member stands head and shoulders above the rest.