Việt Nam News

Việt Nam’s rolling seven-day average of new COVID-19 incidences on Friday stood at 16,041, up by over 700 compared to a week ago.

The media needs to keep working on improving its credibility by publishing “timely, accurate and comprehensive” stories, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phạm Anh Tuấn has said.

HCM City wants the Government to help increase the supply of liquid oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients since it is unable to procure enough for its hospitals.

News agencies need to promote co-operation with authorities and technology businesses to achieve digital transformation, Lâm Đình Thắng, director of the HCM City Department of Information and Communications, has said.

The Ministry of Health has distributed 200,000 tablets of the antiviral drug Molnupiravir in Hà Nội as the number of infections in the capital city continue to increase.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has asked localities to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations as the pandemic rages on across the nation and infections continue to rise.

A trial has begun of 10 employees of a private university accused of issuing counterfeit English certificates to hundreds of people.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will continue to work with the Government of Việt Nam to plan for and transition towards adaptation to an endemic COVID-19 and learning to ‘live safely with the virus’ in the long term, even when there are new surges in the future.

Businesses in HCM City are expected to recruit an additional 33,000-42,000 employees until the year end, with part-time and seasonal jobs accounting for a majority, according to the city's Centre for Human Resource Forecast and Labour Information.

Every Christmas the Catholic neighbourhood in District 8’s Pham The Hien Street and other of its similar areas across HCM City are filled with colourful decorations and nativity scenes set up by religious families. This year although some families have skipped creating the colourful scenes, others are still decking their halls with boughs of Holly.

The HCM City People’s Council has approved a legal framework for the management of urban architecture, with a focus on public land in the city centre, especially near the first metro line’s Bến Thành station.

The HCM City Department of Health’s new guidelines for pandemic assessment in all districts and Thủ Đức city will be based on the rate of new cases in the community, vaccine coverage, and medical facilities’ treatment capacity.

The Prime Minister has assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment to draft strategies and policies on development cooperation with foreign donors in order to improve the efficiency of using official development assistance (ODA) and concessional loans.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu has reduced the number of poor households to 842, or 1.45 per cent of the province’s total households, by providing soft loans, vocational skills, and sustainable livelihood models to the poor.

Phương Tấn Đạt is not someone who hogs the limelight. The 31-year-old would rather take a back seat and avoid being the centre of attention. But Đạt’s relentless volunteering efforts during the COVID pandemic in his home city of Cần Thơ, have earned him the National Volunteer Service Award 2021.

A 12-year-old boy in Hà Nội fell to his death from an apartment building, sparking concerns over children’s mental wellbeing and parents’ negligence on the matter, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc visited and presented gifts to the Hanoi Archdiocese and the Committee for Solidarity of Vietnamese Catholics (CSVC) in the capital city on Thursday.