Việt Nam News

HCM City on Friday began administering the third COVID-19 vaccine doses to a number of priority groups.

More than 300 participants from 75 education facilities, 30 foreign embassies and 16 local and international organisations discussed internationalisation in higher education, at a forum in Hà Nội on December 9.

Vietnamese rice businesses and farmers are still lacking awareness of low-carbon rice production, said Nguyễn Văn Hùng, an expert from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Ericsson and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) on Thursday announced their collaboration for an education initiative on 5G in Việt Nam that will help educate Vietnamese students on 5G and emerging technologies.

The regional conference in Transportation, Energy and Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering (RCTEMME2021) will promote academic collaboration in engineering among ASEAN and Japanese universities, according to Chairman of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) Council Lê Anh Tuấn.

The COVID-19 Resuscitation Hospital in Thủ Đức City plans to increase its hospital beds to 500 to cope with the rising number of severely ill COVID patients.

Having a solidly-built house has always been a dream for many poor people in northern Ha Giang Province. Thanks to the support of local authorities, border guards and good Samaritans, the seemingly distant dream has now come true with more than 5,100 new houses being built in the past two years.

The HCM City People's Committee has approved adjustments to urban planning for the city’s 930ha central area, including a residential area and a street in District 1.

The final batch of 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Việt Nam’s contract for 30 million doses from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company has arrived in the country.

The number of new daily COVID-19 cases in the capital city could reach as many as 1,000, said Hà Nội Health Department Department’s director Trần Thị Nhị Hà.

The southern province of Tây Ninh has seen a sharp increase in daily COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, placing it as one of the localities with the highest number of cases in the country.

HCM City’s COVID-19 vaccination drive for children aged between 12 and 17 has been completed with a total of 709,645 children receiving inoculations. 

WHO Representative in Việt Nam Dr Kidong Park has offered recommendations to the country in face of the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, which was first detected in South Africa and has been reported in countries and territories worldwide.

As cases continue to rise again across the country, priority will be given to providing a third 'booster' vaccine to those aged over 50 or with immunodeficiency, in an attempt to bring down the death rate from COVID-19 across the country.

The Government is soliciting billions of dollars in foreign investment in metro routes and other infrastructure projects in HCM City in the next five years.

Việt Nam remains consistent that all targets and policies are tailored for people throughout its history, and the Party and the State have made endless efforts to let people fully enjoy human rights and the fundamental rights of citizens.

The Vietnamese capital Hà Nội reported a record number of COVID cases on Thursday, registering 822 infections. A total of 15,311 new transmissions were recorded across the country.