Việt Nam News

Nguyễn Văn Cơ, 62, of Thường Tân Commune, the southern province of Bình Dương, has made equipment that combines fertilising, spraying pesticides and watering to cultivate 800 pomelo trees in his garden.

The ministries of Public Security and Justice should make clear that drug addiction is a disease and social evil, the vice chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs said at a two-day conference on legal policy on drug and HIV/ AIDS prevention opened on Thursday in HCM City.

An international savings, retirement and insurance business, the Aviva Group, has donated over VNĐ1.4 billion (US$60,000) to the Việt Nam Red Cross Society to support an initiative to help people recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Việt Nam on Friday confirmed one new case of COVID-19 – a Vietnamese citizen who returned from Cameroon and was quarantined on arrival at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport on June 25, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

 A vaccine for COVID-19 that is being developed by State-owned vaccine manufacturer VABIOTECH Co., Ltd. could generate relatively high immune response, according to the company chairman Đỗ Tuấn Đạt.

A 20-year-old man who tested positive for diphtheria is being treated at Military Hospital 175 in HCM City, making the city the second locality in Việt Nam reporting diphtheria cases this month after the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông.

All the prosecuted persons are residents of Hoành and Đồng Mít hamlets of Đồng Tâm. Among them, 25 face murder charges while the four others are accused of resisting on-duty officers.

A brand new model of cooperation and benefit sharing between farmers, localities and entrepreneurs in organic farming was officially launched on Thursday.

A man who fled a COVID-19 quarantine centre in Quảng Ninh province has been recaptured by the authorities.

As temperatures rise across Việt Nam, spare a thought for those in hospital right now. Doctors, nurses, patients and their relatives are all feeling a little hot under the collar. One hospital in Hà Nội is doing its best to work around the sweltering heat, and make everyone there as comfortable as possible.

All passengers wore protective suits, filled in compulsory health declarations, and have been quarantined at facilities for 14 days. The check-in counters and airport terminals were also later sterilised.

Heavy rain from last night and landslides impacted the roads to Pa Ủ, Tà Tổng and Thu Lũ communes of Mường Tè District.

Drip irrigation helped save 80 per cent of water compared with conventional watering techniques.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday donated three Ohmni Robots to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases to help protect frontline doctors and nurses from COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

Vietnamese and Ethiopian airlines repatriated more than 130 Vietnamese citizens from Nigeria, Cameroon and Malaysia.

The 2020 ASEAN-Japan Cyber Exercise focused on solutions and information-sharing mechanisms to deal with fake websites.