Việt Nam News

Almost VNĐ337 trillion (US$14.6 billion) has been loaned to more than 12 million households nationwide under the social policy credit programme over the past five years, helping improve local lives and reduce poverty, according to the Việt Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP).

Localities and all links in the tourism value chain need to join hands to boost domestic tourism, which is now a priority for the struggling industry’s recovery post-pandemic, tourism experts have said.

For many years, Ngô Thành Toại, 66, who has Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and dyslipidemia, regularly visited doctors once a month at Gò Vấp District Hospital in HCM City.

Eight male Russian experts entering Việt Nam on July 7 were confirmed as positive to SARS-CoV-2 on Wednesday evening, raising the country’s COVID-19 infections to 381. 

Mê Linh Point Ltd., a joint venture between brewer Sabeco Group and Frasers Property Vietnam, on Tuesday (July 14) donated 20 thermal cameras worth more than VNĐ1 billion (US$43,300) to the Việt Nam Fatherland Front Committee’s HCM City chapter to support the country’s efforts against COVID-19.

Nearly 188ha of land will be cleared by mid-August as the highway's speed limit is set to be raised from 100km per hour to 120. 

Over VNĐ10 trillion from the State budget has been earmarked for carrying out the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction this year.

Around 100 doctors and nurses at City Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital 1 and 2, Chợ Rẫy Hospital and others in HCM City on Wednesday (July 15) took part in a successful operation to separate conjoined twins.   

Minh finally fell pregnant when she was 42 years old thanks to in vitro fertilisation (IVF) after experiencing a 20-year journey with her husband seeking to become a mother.

The move came after recent wall collapses which led to deaths and property damage.

As many as 78 infected cases have been reported in Đắk Lắk, Đắk Nông, Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces and three people have died.

Việt Nam is the only country in the world which has conducted a second dedicated study specifically using a cross-culturally validated methodology developed by the World Health Organisation. 

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An has banned the breeding of swifts in urban areas starting this month.

Authorities should pay attention to the daily life, health care, and job creation for the children of former youth volunteers, he said.