Việt Nam News

A well-known transgender couple – Minh Khang and Minh Anh – welcomed their first baby on May 16, making the husband Minh Khang the first transgender man in Việt Nam to get pregnant and give birth to a baby.

HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital and State-owned Vietcombank are issuing debit cards for use by outpatients.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyễn Quốc Dũng on Monday presented the token of medical supplies worth US$420,000 as gifts from the Vietnamese Government and people to eight countries in Asia-Pacific countries, to support their fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Tạ Quang Bửu Awards are the most prestigious and valuable annual awards for Vietnamese researchers.

Subsidence has occurred on many sections on Provincial Road No 965 in Kiên Giang Province’s U Minh Thượng District, making travel difficult.  

The first households in Long Thành District in the southern province of Đồng Nai whose land will be handed over for Long Thành international airport project began receiving compensation worth a total of VNĐ70 billion (US$3.01 million) yesterday, according to the district’s People’s Committee.

Over 130,000 vehicles were pulled over for inspection across the country on the first two days of a new traffic safety campaign. Fines worth a total of over VNĐ14 billion (US$602 million) were issued.

Two cabin crew from Vietnam Airlines are among the latest patients to test positive for COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

Foreigners entering the country under visa waiver programmes, e-visas or tourism visas after March 1 will be automatically given stay permit extension until June 30 free of charge.

An appeal trial looking into the trade of counterfeit cancer drugs at Việt Nam Pharma (VN Pharma) JSC commenced on Monday morning in HCM City.

Three more patients with COVID-19 recovered and were discharged from the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases on Monday afternoon, bringing the country’s total cases being given the all-clear to 263, making up 82 per cent of total patients.

Excess levels of bacteria was the main cause of a food poisoning case in Đà Nẵng City on May 7. This was the conclusion of the Đà Nẵng Food Safety Management Committee, released on Monday.

Many crop growing areas in Cà Mau Province’s freshwater zones are facing a severe shortage of water because of a prolonged dry spell.

The lives of ethnic minority people in the central province of Quảng Bình’s Minh Hóa District have changed thanks to the care of soldiers over the past 10 years.

During her time she has earned the nickname the ‘beggar’ because no matter where she goes or who she meets, she is constantly asking for donations to help the poor. And when the cash doesn’t come in, she will dig deep into her own pockets to buy gifts for poor households in the ward.

Authorities and people in HCM City held tree-planting activities across 24 districts on the day. In 2019, the city planted more than 400,000 trees.