Việt Nam News

Residents in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre are providing households with free fresh water as saltwater intrusion is expected to equal or exceed the record level that occurred during the 2015 – 16 dry season.

Millions of students in 59 provinces and cities went back to the school on Monday after nearly six weeks absence due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday stressed the importance of not discriminating against those who have gone through regions hit by COVID-19 in Việt Nam and the need to step up quarantine efforts, saying they help control the epidemic.

HCM City plans to launch a trial run of the first metro line section between Bình Thái intersection and Long Bình Depot in District 9 in the third quarter.

Quarantine remained the best way of preventing the spread of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19, according to Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Vương Đình Huệ. 

The harvest of Artemia eggs has entered the peak season in Vĩnh Châu Town in Sóc Trăng Province, and yields and incomes are high because of favourable weather conditions.

While Việt Nam has had some early success in the battle against COVID-19, the war is far from over and now is not time to relax, Deputy Prime Miniter Vũ Đức Đam has said.

The General Department for Market Surveillance has recently set up a working group on e-commerce to deal with the increasing number of trade violations online.

Thirty Vietnamese citizens returning from Wuhan City in China three weeks ago were discharged from hospital yesterday after finishing quarantine period.

All flights from South Korea to Nội Bài international airport in Hà Nội and Tân Sơn Nhất international airport in HCM City will be re-directed to Vân Đồn and Cần Thơ airports to relieve pressure on medical centres in Hà Nội and HCM City, according to a decision by the government.

Three more Vietnamese students returning from South Korea have been quarantined at a military school in southernmost Cà Mau Province, the provincial COVID-19 Prevention and Control Steering Committee has said.

The 14th Congress of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) held in September 2018 is an important diplomatic political event that marked a milestone for the State Audit of Việt Nam (SAV) and helped heighten the position of SAV in Asia and around the world.

Land use and management at some real estate projects in Hà Nội and HCM City will be inspected this year under the recent decision of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

Five Vietnamese sailors were reported missing after a cargo vessel sank off the coast of Aomori prefecture in Japan on February 29, according to a Vietnamese official.

The HCM City Department of Health plans to transform one or two hospitals into emergency hospitals to quarantine and treat patients infected with the new coronavirus.

According to Việt Nam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy hosts some 5,000 Vietnamese people. The country’s number of infected cases on Sunday exceeded 1,100, ranked third on the world’s worst-hit countries by COVID-19 following China and South Korea.

Three years ago, Trần Thị Hoàng Anh from Central Highlands’ Gia Lai Province decided to give up a job as an accountant to establish her own business.

As a travel enthusiast, Nguyễn Thị Dạ Lý, 28, spends her leisure time and money on trips to explore the world. After her trips, what most impressed the young lady from HCM City was the widespread awareness of environmentally-friendly products around the world.