Việt Nam News

A 22-year-old man from Bắc Giang Province has tested positive for COVID-19. He is the husband of a woman who previously tested positive.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang targets an average annual growth rate of 24 per cent for marine aquaculture from now to 2030.

Hà Nội’s Fire Prevention and Control Police Office has carried out fire safety inspections and made repairs of places with high risks of fire and explosion in the city since early this year to ensure a safe Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday for city dwellers.

Việt Nam on Tuesday afternoon recorded 16 new COVID-19 cases, including 13 community infections connected to known outbreaks, and three imported cases, pushing the country’s caseload to 2,069.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Tuesday praised the efforts of the health workers who are still working tirelessly at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 outbreaks in Việt Nam while Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday has already started.

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HCM City plans to move its pig farming industry away from breeding for pork and increase the number of pigs raised for breeding purposes in the next five years.

HCM City authorities have ordered all non-essential services and entertainment, cultural and sports activities to be suspended from noon on February 9 amid continuing COVID-19 transmission.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed off a strategy for the development and application of space science and technology by 2030.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Cà Mau targets a 0.3 percentage point reduction in the poverty rate this year, according to its Fatherland Front Committee.

Nano Covax is the first Việt Nam-made COVID-19 vaccine to enter human trial starting from December 17, 2020. The vaccine can be kept at normal refrigerator temperatures (2-8 degrees Celsius).

Improving the capacity of hydro-meteorological monitoring and forecasting as well as strengthening international co-operation are identified as two major tasks of the national hydro-meteorological sector in the future.

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Đào Ngọc Dung talks to Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Sài Gòn) Newspaper about Tết bonuses for workers under the impact of COVID-19.

On the sidelines of the ongoing 13th National Party Congress, Phan Thanh Bình, member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children Affairs talked with the Vietnam News Agency about the development of education, training, and human resources

Over the past 20 years, after finishing work Mấu Văn Phi usually drives his old motorbike to offer medical check-ups and treatment to impoverished people, mostly of the Raglai ethnicity, in Khánh Vĩnh District in the central province of Khánh Hòa.

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Forty-five new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Việt Nam on Monday evening, including a 10-month-old baby, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.