Việt Nam News

A project on quality assurance and  governance has improved management and training at the HCM City University of Education, the university’s vice rector Huỳnh Văn Sơn said at a conference held on January 7 in the city.

Hà Nội’s first metro project, the long-delayed Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway project, is scheduled to complete on March 31, said Nguyễn Khánh Tùng, Vice Director of the project’s Management Board.

A German-made tunnel boring machine is going to bore Hanoi's first underground metro stretch, which is part of Metro Line No 3 that runs from Nhổn to the Hanoi Train Station.

Wakamono, a HCM City company that specialises in producing nano biotech materials, has invented a medical mask that is capable of killing more than 99 per cent of both gram-negative and -positive bacteria, and enveloped and non-enveloped virus.

Organisers expect to collects 50,000 blood units in the Chủ Nhật Đỏ 2021 (Red Sunday), a blood donation campaign that will be kicked off officially at the Hà Nội University of Science and Technology in Hà Nội on January 17.

The southern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu plans to reduce its poverty rate to 0.5 per cent under national poverty standards by 2025.

The Government recently issued Decree No 152/2020/ND-CP featuring regulations on foreigners working in Vietnam and the recruitment and management of Vietnamese working for foreign organisations and individuals in the country.

Air quality in Hà Nội fell to dangerous levels in the first week of the New Year, particularly in inner city areas, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

The HCM City Department of Health has ordered stricter implementation of anti-pandemic measures at ports.

The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat has called on the entire political system and people of Việt Nam to tighten and follow COVID-19 prevention and control measures.

Four new imported cases, all Vietnamese returning from the US via South Korea.

Việt Nam will keep using its current COVID-19 prevention strategy, despite the emergence of new more transmissible variants of coronavirus.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Việt Nam on Thursday handed over 64 Doppler foetal monitors and personal protective equipment worth US$300,000 to help Việt Nam ensure the continuity and quality of sexual and reproductive healthcare services in flood-affected provinces amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thăng Long Bridge reopened to traffic on Thursday after five months of repairs, the Ministry of Transport has said.

Leading medical experts from major institutions across Việt Nam on Thursday held a telemedicine meeting to discuss the conditions of two seriously ill COVID-19 patients currently in treatment in Hà Nội and Quảng Nam.

Up to 69.2 per cent of people faced income reductions, 39.9 per cent had to cut working hours and take time off work, and about 14 per cent had to stop working altogether.

Tree lovers in HCM City can now visit zero đồng shops in Bình Tân and Tân Phú districts to pick up plant pots and seeds for free.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the health sector to continue using drastic measures to tackle COVID-19 this year, particularly ahead of the Tet (Lunar New Year) celebrations and other important events.