Việt Nam News

Demand for workers in HCM City and other manufacturing hubs in the south has been high and rising after the Tết (Lunar New Year) holidays driven by a business recovery as COVID-19 recedes.

Phạm Văn Phong decided to return to his hometown of Thịnh Long Township in Hải Hậu District to start up his own business in 2012 after many years working in Hà Nội in unstable and poorly paid jobs.

Nguyễn Hữu Nhân, a lecturer of Việt Nam RMIT University, started a project named 'Refill Đây' (Refill Here) to work with manufacturing businesses to set up mobile refilling stores for retail products such as detergent, cosmetics, spices and dried foods in residential areas so people can bring use own containers to reduce plastic waste.

The HCM City Public Transport Management Centre has announced plans to trial bus lanes on Điện Biên Phủ and Võ Thị Sáu streets during peak hours. 

In Krêl Village in Đức Cơ District of Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands, one ethnic minority member stands head and shoulders above the rest.

All the new locally-transmitted cases were found in quarantine facilities or isolated areas in Hải Dương, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

The People’s Committee in the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp on February 26 instructed local authorities and agencies to strengthen control of border gates, trails and crossings following the illegal entry of a Vietnamese woman who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on February 27 received VNĐ20 billion (US$866,620) from conglomerate Vingroup for the clinical trials of homegrown COVID-19 vaccine COVIVAC.

A serious accident between trucks and passenger cars occurred yesterday on the Bảo Lộc Overpass in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng at 7pm on National Road 20 in Đạ Huoai District.

Six more new cases announced Saturday afternoon. All were F1 cases in Hải Dương province and already quarantined. Five more patients recovered.

Students in Hà Nội are set to come back to school next Tuesday (March 2), according to a document issued by the municipal People’s Committee on Saturday.

The Ministry of Transport has approved the addition of a weather surveillance radar station to the detailed plan to expand HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport to both the north and south to serve 50 million passengers per year by 2030. 

A ‘face mask bus’ has been going around HCM City, dispensing high-quality face masks for free.

Hà received the title at the age of 34 in early December last year by the State Council for Professorship.

Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, the country’s rice granary, are having a bumper winter – spring harvest and getting high prices for their grain.