Việt Nam News

Although it is just the beginning of the dry season, many districts in the central province of Quảng Ngãi are already suffering the effects of extremely hot weather and drought.

The HCM City Power Corporation Corporation under Viet Nam Electricity (EVNHCMC) is co-operating with suppliers to carry out preferential programmes to encourage enterprises and individuals in the city to use solar power.

As many as 26 Vietnamese people have volunteered to donate part of their lungs to save a critically ill British pilot, Việt Nam’s 91st COVID-19 patient, the National Co-ordination Centre for Human Organ Transplantation has said.

After remaining closed for more than three months, the People's Committee of Hoan Kiem district in Ha Noi has announced the capital city’s popular ‘walking streets’ will reopen on Friday (May 15).

Eight more patients with COVID-19 have recovered at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases on Thursday, bringing the country’s total cases being given the all-clear to 260.

Due to the prolonged dry season, water levels at many reservoirs in the southern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu are at or lower than dead water levels.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp has switched to growing other crops this year on 3,570ha of unproductive rice fields, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

At present, a series of BOT (build-operation-transfer) projects is reporting considerably lower revenues compared to the original financial plans, as toll fee collection had plummeted due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Street food vendors will have to wear face masks from now on while preparing food and drinks for customers and maintain a distance of at least one metre from customers, Hà Nội’s Department of Health has said.

Vương Thi Ngọc Lan, a specialist at the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, has brought hope to thousands of infertile couples in Việt Nam through a study about the efficiency between the transfer of fresh or frozen embryos in women without polycystic ovaries for in vitro fertilisation (IVF).

With no new cases of COVID-19 reported on Thursday morning, Việt Nam has now gone four weeks in a row without any community transmissions.

A 40-year-old woman and a 70-year-old veteran registered to donate parts of their lungs to the British pilot, Việt Nam’s 91st COVID-19 patient who is suffering from lung damage.

A British pilot – Việt Nam’s 91st COVID-19 patient – is suffering 90% damage to his lungs, according to HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases where he is being treated, on Wednesday. 

Police in the Mekong Delta Province of An Giang are urgently looking for a man who escaped from a quarantine facility, said Lê Văn Phước, deputy chairman of the provincial People's Committee.

The provincial People’s Procuracy in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông on Tuesday launched criminal proceedings against a commune official who allegedly killed his wife's nephew, then staged a vehicle fire to cover up the murder and claim insurance.

Việt Nam has arranged a Vietnam Airlines flight to bring home more than 340 citizens from Russia.