Việt Nam News

The HCM City Department of Education and Training said is closely monitoring private tutoring facilities since more and more of them are operating without a licence.

Miền Tây (Western) and Miền Đông (Eastern) bus stations in HCM City will begin selling Tết (Lunar New Year) tickets next month at prices 40-60 per cent higher than on normal days.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Sóc Trăng plans to breed brackish water shrimp species in more than 51,000ha of ponds next year, the same as this year.

Villagers of Mường Nhé District in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên are warmer this winter thanks to thick clothes and blankets local soldiers gave them.

A major roadway plan proposes an additional 1,000 kilometres of expressways to be built over the next 10 years in the southern region, including the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.

A festival reviewing co-operative activities between young people in Việt Nam and other Southeast Asian nations this year was held in Hà Nội on Sunday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Sunday called on nations, organisations and individuals to observe the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness (December 27), an initiative by Việt Nam adopted by the United Nations at the beginning of December.

Three first volunteers received the first shot of a dose of 50mcg of Nanocovax COVID-19 vaccine on December 26 morning. 

A man who entered the country illegally from Myanmar is the latest patient to test positive for COVID-19.

The Health Department of the southern province of Vĩnh Long has quickly put in quarantine a person who returned from abroad from a pandemic hit country without declaration, conducted COVID-19 tests and traced people who had close contact with this person.

The number of people receiving unemployment allowance is estimated to reach 1.03 million by the end of this year, about 24 per cent higher than the same period last year due to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic.

A young man from a poor commune of Thanh Hoá Province has been successful in growing chilli peppers for export.

Local authorities of south-central provinces have taken strong and prompt actions to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in an effort to help local fishery sector remove the formal warning (yellow card) imposed by the European Commission and support farmers to recover from losses.

Farmers who grow organic rice and breed giant river prawn in the same rice field under farm contracts in Trà Vinh Province are getting bumper harvests and high prices.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc hailed the role of science and technology intellectuals in the country, and appreciated the contributions made by the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA) to the country’s national construction and defence.