Telecom service providers sent over 15 billion text messages regarding COVID-19 control and prevention during the first half of 2020 and received donations via text for victims of the pandemic totalling VNĐ152 billion (US$6.58 million).
Việt Nam recorded fourteen new COVID-19 patients who are Vietnamese citizens returning from overseas and were quarantined upon arrival.
14 new COVID-19 cases recorded on Monday evening, all imported
Huệ also told the contractors to pay more attention to the labour safety for workers, as well as ensure the quality of each work.
Eleven boats were found to be exploiting sand illegally on Đồng Nai River on Saturday and Sunday.
The project will run from June 1, 2020, to May 31, 2023, with funding from the European Union (EU), implemented by Helvetas and the Centre for Rural Communities Research and Development under Land Alliance.
Severe erosion of a canal bank in Cà Mau Province at midnight on Saturday damaged 14 houses, according to the local steering committee for natural disaster prevention and control, search and rescue.
The 42 animals released included four pig-tailed macaques, three yellow monkeys, two red-faced monkeys, 31 turtles and two pigmy lorises.
Provinces like Bến Tre and Hậu Giang collected 700 to 800 units of blood each in the first time they took part in the campaign.
The fire caused damage worth tens of billions of đồng.
HCM City schools will have 54,000 students entering primary, middle and secondary schools in the 2020-21 academic year.
Kiên Giang Province, the country’s largest rice producer, has taken measures to strengthen co-operation between co-operatives and companies involved in rice production to improve the quality and value of the grain, and thus farmers’ incomes.
Soldiers of Buộc Mú border guard station, at Na Ngoi border commune, Kỳ Sơn District, are tasked with protecting the border day-and-night.
The Trà Vinh Province People’s Committee has approved the construction of a sea embankment project worth VNĐ46 billion (nearly US$2 million) to prevent coastal erosion along the Cồn Nhàn Beach.
Located hundreds of kilometres from the province’s centre, Chế Tạo is the poorest commune of Mù Căng Chải District, the northern mountainous province of Yên Bái. The local community might be underdeveloped but the children are not uneducated thanks to the efforts of authorities.
The percentage of poor and near-poor households in ethnic minority dominated areas in Việt Nam is 3.5 times higher than the country’s average, the latest survey conducted by Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs reveals.
HCM City plans to stop construction of high-rise apartment buildings in downtown areas and focus instead on building such residential complexes along the first metro route in the eastern part of the city comprising districts 2, 9 and Thủ Đức.