Việt Nam News

A Kâm and his wife Y Thoa have been running free classes for about 30-40 poor children for more than five years in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum.

Lê Văn Vững, the owner of four hair salons in Cần Thơ City, regularly organises trips offering free haircuts to needy people in remote areas of the Mekong River Delta.

Central provinces to be hit by Storm Noul banned vessels from going out to sea on Thursday as the tropical storm is forecast to make landfall on Friday morning.

The plan for the flights' resumption needs to be approved by Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam, chair of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Saltwater intrusion and drought in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh caused a total damage of VNĐ1 trillion (US$43 million) to agricultural production in the 2019 – 20 dry season, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Three more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Việt Nam, all of them imported cases who arrived in the country on the same flight from Uzbekistan on September 2.

Three imported cases on Thursday afternoon. Four recovered.

Nearly 280 Vietnamese citizens, stranded in 10 European countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were brought home on September 16-17 on a Vietnam Airlines flight.

For the first time in its history, doctors at Việt Đức Hospital in Hà Nội successfully carried out 23 organ transplants within 13 days

ASEAN ministers of labour and education on Wednesday approved the ASEAN roadmap on human resource development for the changing world of work to realise the bloc’s declaration on this issue adopted at the 36th ASEAN Summit in June.

The outlook for Việt Nam's livestock market was bright over the next ten years as the population grows to nearly 107 million with an average income of US$10,000, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường.

The south- central province of Ninh Thuận, the country’s largest grape producer, will expand the cultivation of a high-quality, disease-resistant new variety, NH 01 – 26.

Hundreds of students and teachers of Xăm Khoè Secondary have received an education over the last decade, thanks to Hà Minh Thiết's donation of nearly 8,000 sq.m of his family’s cemetery land in 2010 to build the school in Mai Châu District’s Xăm Khoè Commune, the northern province of Hoà Bình.

Noul, the fifth storm to enter the East Sea this year, is gaining strength, heading to the central region of Việt Nam and expectedly makes land on Friday.

No new COVID-19 cases on Thursday morning

Việt Nam has gone two weeks straight without a single community infection of COVID-19 and as of  Wednesday there are now less than 100 active cases nationwide. 

Dengue fever cases dropped significantly in Việt Nam during the first eight months of this year, but the country needed to remain vigilant as there were currently cases in 58 provinces and cities and the risk of a greater outbreak was extremely high, experts have said.