Việt Nam News

A woman who allegedly caused a fire killing one and injuring five others was arrested by Nam Từ Liêm District Police on Friday.

Nha Trang Pasteur Institute in the south-central province Khánh Hoà has said it is recruiting 3,000 vaccinated adult volunteers for the Phase 3 clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine in the form of a nasal spray.

The south–eastern province of Tây Ninh will spend nearly VNĐ45 billion (US$1.95 million) to support the development of occupations in rural areas from now to 2025.

A lack of awareness has left many parents of children with autism blaming themselves for their children's developmental disabilities, hindering efforts to help children better integrate into society.

Nearly 2,000 tonnes of equipment and goods of Việt Nam’s first military engineering unit participating in the United Nations peacekeeping operations at the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) will be transported from Hải Phòng port in the northern city of Hải Phòng to the mission from April 4, according to the Ministry of National Defence’s Việt Nam Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

Unseasonal downpours have been lashing the central provinces since the start of this week, causing two deaths and two more to go missing at sea. 

Hà Nội continued to see a decreasing number of new daily COVID-19 infections on Friday. However, the capital city still had the most cases in Việt Nam with 7,734.

The city of Hà Nội is supporting traditional craft villages to help them modernise and invest in developing a technical infrastructure.

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to Việt Nam, via the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX Facility.

The General Department of Việt Nam Customs will participate in the Operation Mekong Dragon IV, a joint regional operation against drug and wildlife trafficking, from April 15 to September 15 this year, the department has announced.

COVID update on April 1

The Republic of Korea (RoK) Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has officially removed Việt Nam from the list of countries subjected to tightened COVID-19 control measures.

The 2021 Kovalevskaya Award will be given to two Vietnamese university professors in recognition of their outstanding research achievements and great contribution to the national development, the award committee has announced.

The challenges of COVID-19 are a test that requires women to join hands in support of women's businesses that dare to prove themselves and show their strengths, according to Elisa Fernandez, UN Women Representative to Việt Nam, at the conference 'Women's innovative entrepreneurship in the new normal' on Wednesday. 

ASK International from Japan, in cooperation with Đông Á University in Đà Nẵng, will publish two books on Japanese language learning for Vietnamese students in 2022 as part of an agreement on education and human resources training signed by the two partners in Japan last year.

Huỳnh Ngọc Thái Anh's invention, the recyclable trash collector, has won first prize in UNESCO's "Innovative Ideas for a Plastic-Free Ocean" competition.