Việt Nam News

Farmers in Sông Xoài Commune in Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu Province’s Phú Mỹ Town are concerned about poor profits from grapefruit harvested for the upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) festival which falls on February 1.

The Government has just issued Resolution 150/NQ-CP approving the ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Cross-border Transport of Passengers by Road Vehicles (CBTP).

Việt Nam’s mounting traffic problems have been put under the spotlight as transport experts and government officials thrashed out ways to reduce the amount of road deaths and ease congestion.

The HCM City Department of Health on Thursday (December 2) asked all public hospitals in the city to set aside at least 10 per cent of hospital beds for treatment of COVID-19 patients amid a surge in hospitalisations and deaths and the emergence of the Omicron variant.

The HCM City police have busted what they said was the city’s largest ever online gambling ring, one that had carried out betting transactions worth nearly VNĐ90 trillion (US$3.94 billion).

Trần Như Hoàng, a resident of Ninh Hải Commune in Ninh Hòa Township meticulously takes care of sea grapes in his farm in the central coastal province of Khánh Hòa.

Secondary and high school students in HCM City will have 12 to 30 in-person lessons per week, depending on COVID-19 risk levels, when the city allows schools to reopen.

Local farmers in the central province of Hà Tĩnh have begun using biological products to limit the use of pesticides in agricultural production, to produce safer products and protect the environment.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre for Zone coordinated a rescue of 18 crew members of a sinking ship off the south central province of Bình Thuận.

The Vietnamese capital Hà Nội reported a record number of coronavirus cases for the third consecutive day on Friday, registering 791 infections, according to the Ministry of Health. 

COVID-19 update

Health experts reviewed the progress of the APEC Rare Disease Action Plan over the past few years at a meeting on Thursday in Hà Nội.

Local authorities in Hà Nội are expanding home isolation for F0 and F1 cases in the city to 30 districts and townships, as prescribed by the health sector. 

Students at senior high schools in Hanoi will return to school from December 6 after a long period of online learning due to COVID-19.

WHO and UNICEF have called on the Government of Việt Nam and State agencies to implement a Government decree that mandates the fortification of salt, wheat flour and vegetable oil and the use of fortified salt and wheat flour by the food industry.

Hà Nội is focusing its effort on developing housing projects and new urban areas to meet people’s demands and improve their life quality.

School principals and experts have welcomed the return of in-person learning as schools in Hà Nội prepare for a limited reopening. 

The HCM City People’s Committee will begin a pilot school reopening period on December 13.