Việt Nam News

The National Assembly (NA) committees for culture-education, justice, and social affairs on February 22 convened a session to discuss solutions for violence against children, after several cases shocked the public recently.

A record total of 55,879 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Việt Nam on Tuesday, taking the total number of infections to 2,890,252.

A special wedding for 20 couples who are medical staff at Military Hospital 175 (Ministry of Defense) has been held after their plans were postponed for months due to the pandemic.

As schools up and down the country return to in-person learning for the first time in months, guidelines are being updated on how to deal with the inevitable situation of positive cases being found in the classroom. 

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) is implementing the first-year technical cooperation project for aquaculture productivity enhancement in Vietnam’s northern provinces.

Health officials and doctors agree that Việt Nam is ready to implement a safe vaccination campaign for children aged 5-11, aiming to have vaccination rate in this age group of 90-95 per cent.

A foundation was launched in HCM City last week to promote training of people in applied mathematics.

The Transport Ministry has asked HCM City to deal strictly with taxi drivers who aggressively solicit and charge exorbitant fares from passengers at the Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport.

Specialists abound but there is a dearth of general practitioners that undermines primary healthcare in the city, experts said on Monday.

Border guards in the northeastern province of Quảng Ninh have been growing bamboo along the Ka Long river, which runs roughly along the border of the China-Việt Nam. Now, residents are taking up the initiative in upkeeping the bamboo, and turning a tidy profit. 

Raising mussels for pearls could become a promising industry in Việt Nam with advantages of favourable weather conditions, long coast and warm sea.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An will start work on five key transport infrastructure projects worth VNĐ1.6 trillion (US$70 million), aimed at enhancing connectivity in the region.

Health ministry is set to have a meeting this week with three Vietnamese producers of molnupiravir pills with matters related the supplies, usage, quality and pricing of the antiviral drugs used to treat COVID-19.

People who have been in close contact with COVID-19 patients, or F1 cases, are allowed to self-quarantine at home for five days if they have been fully vaccinated, or have recovered from the disease in the last three months.

The new cases bring the country's tally to 2,834,373, with 39,605 deaths and 2,294,669 recoveries since the start of the pandemic.

Farmers in Bình Phước Province are getting high prices for pepper amid the ongoing harvest season but face a shortage of workers.