Việt Nam News

HCM City will set aside VNĐ900 billion (US$39.54 million) to help beneficiaries of welfare policies, poor people and those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic celebrate Tết (the Lunar New Year).

Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are encouraging farmers to expand smart rice farming since it helps adapt to climate change, is environment-friendly and offers higher incomes.

Development of safe and eco-friendly agritourism is a new direction for the central province Nghệ An after nearly two years of the pandemic badly affecting the tourism sector.

The capital Hà Nội again registered a record high, with 2,830 new daily COVID-19 infections on Monday, as the Ministry of Health reported 14,818 new cases of coronavirus nationwide.

One more imported case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was discovered in HCM City last Saturday (January 8), taking the city’s total number to 12.

Construction is expected to start this year on a section of the Dầu Giây – Liên Khương expressway project running through Tân Phú District in Đồng Nai Province to Bảo Lộc City in Lâm Đồng Province

People who have had primary vaccine doses of the Vero Cell COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinopharm can receive AstraZeneca, Vero Cell, Pfizer or Moderna for the additional dose, according to the latest guidance from the Ministry of Health.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Việt Nam (CAAV) has called on the ministries of Transport and Foreign Affair not to arrange repatriation flights to land at Nội Bài and Tân Sơn Nhất airports to avoid overcrowding at airport rapid COVID-19 testing sites.

The suspect of an armed gun robbery in Hải Phòng on Friday was arrested on Sunday, after three days in hiding. 

A prayer vigil was held in downtown Hà Nội on Sunday to pay tribute to the eight-year-old girl who was abused to death by her father’s fiancée in HCM City last month.

The 2022 “Mùa xuân cho em” (Spring for Children) programme raised more than VNĐ104 billion (US$4.58 million) to support disadvantaged and pandemic-hit children.

After arriving in Cambodia, these jobs turn out to be fictitious. Instead, they are forced to repay their debts, often through sex work.

A number of ongoing traffic projects in HCM City, including bridges and roads, are nearing completion and are expected to be finished by year-end, Lương Minh Phúc, head of the city Management Board for Traffic Works Construction and Investment, has said.

More than 1.4 million Vietnamese became unemployed in 2021, up 203,700 from the previous year, or 17 per cent, due to the impacts of the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, data from the General Statistics Office (GSO) showed.

HCM City’s Department of Health will focus on improving medical facilities and the HCM City Centre for Disease Control, training personnel and other efforts to strengthen the healthcare sector this year.

Despite his disability, teacher Phùng Văn Trường inspires those around him with his hard-work, dedication and willingness to help others

Fourteen old apartment buildings in Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 and Tân Bình in HCM City will be rebuilt in 2022 after long delays, city People’s Committee vice chairman Lê Hoà Bình has said.