Việt Nam News

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has not imposed a flight ban on routes to the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, CAAV Director-General Đinh Việt Thắng has said.

A US federal grand jury has charged a 64-year-old man from of San Francisco, California, with repeatedly traveling to Việt Nam in order to engage in illicit sexual conduct, US Embassy in Hà Nội announced in a release on Friday.

Hà Nội’s air quality has remained at “very unhealthy” levels since Thursday, placing the capital at the top of the world’s most air polluted cities list.

Police in Hà Tĩnh Province have launched criminal proceedings against seven people for human trafficking in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese in a lorry in the UK last year.

Amid global concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), the full recovery of the first two patients who tested positive for the virus in Việt Nam affirmed the professional competence of Vietnamese physicians and the Government’s efforts to address the global epidemic.

The Investigation Police Agency in the northern province of Sơn La has concluded another investigation into the exam cheating scandal in the province two years ago.

All three patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and were treated in HCM City hospitals have recovered fully and all 32 suspected cases in the city have tested negative as of Wednesday (February 19), according to the city Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention.

Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper on February 11 reported that the land clearance progress of the expressway’s eastern section had been delayed.

The People’s Committee of northern Vĩnh Phúc Province has called for keeping focus on stopping the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading in industrial zones and apartment buildings.

The investigation agency under the Ministry of Public Security has concluded a two-year probe into fraudulent activities of by companies in HCM City.

Three patients from the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc were declared free from the coronavirus and discharged from hospital on Thursday.

The encroachment on the construction of Quảng Trạch 1 Thermal Power Plant in Quảng Bình Province has affected the project's progress.

The luxury Silver Spirit cruise ship docked at Chân Mây Port in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế on Wednesday afternoon, after its 199 passengers from European countries had spent two days in the central city of Đà Nẵng on Tuesday.

The Vietnamese central Government is recommended to cut two ministries and one deputy prime minister according to a proposal to comprehensively restructure the Government for the first time in 15 years.

Lê Huy Tuấn, a HCM City ninth grader, on Wednesday won a competition called “Consul General of Canada for a Day” in HCM City.

US space agency NASA is collaborating with the Việt Nam National Space Centre for a programme on satellite observation to provide analysts and decision makers with information about environmental changes, the effects of agriculture and the health of forests and wetlands.

Nearly VNĐ20 billion (US$861,000) has been pledged by Vingroup to fund research projects on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Disease Control Centre of Hà Nội has required healthcare centres in the city’s districts to intensify their supervision in order to timely detect any cases of novel coronavirus-caused acute respiratory disease (COVID-19).