Việt Nam News

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre is restoring a section along the banks of the Ba Lai River that eroded when a temporary dam was removed along the banks.

The Ministry of Transport said it has invested VNĐ800 billion (US$34.5 million) for repairs and upgrades to national highways in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta this year to ensure traffic safety.

The former Party chief passed away on August 7 at the age of 89 and will be remembered for his great contributions to the glorious revolutionary cause of the Party and country.

Another person has died in Việt Nam of COVID-19 complications, the 22nd coronavirus-related death in the country.

Deputy Prime Minister and head of the committee Vũ Đức Đam said “we can no longer expect that the entire country is virus-free,” since the threats of a disease outbreak are ever-present nationwide.

A man from China who illegally entered Việt Nam is among the latest people to test positive for COVID-19. The 27-year-old entered the country in the north then travelled by car with seven other illegal immigrants to HCM City.

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The respect-paying ceremony for former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee Lê Khả Phiêu, who passed away on August 7 at the age of 89, started on Friday morning at the National Funeral Hall, No. 5 Trần Thánh Tông Street, Hà Nội. 

Up to 183 citizens from Equatorial Guinea, who were repatriated on July 29, were officially allowed to return to their families on Thursday morning after quarantine and testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The General Department of Land Administration has decided to set up a team to inspect and verify information on violations of land-use management, recently reported in the media, in Đại Lải Lake, the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc.

All members of a ward’s people’s committee in Đà Nẵng's Cẩm Lệ district have been isolated after a vice chairman tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, according to a report from the city’s COVID-19 prevention steering committee released on Friday (August 14).

Ten people have been injured after a car smashed into a number of motorbikes stopped at a red light.

A number of people have been punished for violating COVID-19 prevention rules as localities across the country strengthen measures to prevent the outbreak from spreading.

A few months ago a vending machine in HCM City gave free rice to people in need, now another one is distributing free face masks.

The Ministry of Health sent a letter on Tuesday to cities and provinces’ People’s Committees on strengthening supervision and promoting measures of COVID-19 prevention and control in health care establishments.

He said that after witnessing the efforts of the medical team of Hòa Vang Field Hospital and the whole country to repel the pandemic, he became determined to do his part.

A 61-year-old woman has died of COVID-19 complications, the 21st fatality related to coronavirus in Việt Nam.