Việt Nam News

Typhoon Krovanh – the 14th tropical storm to hit the East Sea this year – weakened into a tropical low-pressure system yesterday morning.

The number of people with diabetes in Việt Nam is very high, especially the rate of undiagnosed diabetics in the community, participants heard at a seminar on Friday in Hà Nội.

Da Nang city’s tourism department, in co-operation with the Đà Nẵng International terminal investment and operation joint-stock company (AHT) and Airports Corporation of Việt Nam (ACV), has agreed to build Đà Nẵng as a ‘safe’, attraction and hospitality destination in 2021-25.

A Memorandum of Understanding on information cooperation and exchange has been signed between the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Sunday.

HCM City plans to spend VNĐ813 billion (US$35 million) in cash and gifts for more than 500,000 needy people during Tết (Lunar New Year) 2021, which falls on February 12.

Presenting Tết gifts to revolution contributors has become an annual tradition demonstrating the State and people’s gratitude to the ones who dedicated to the struggle for national independence and reunification

Phạm Đức Mục, President of the Vietnamese Nurses Association speaks to Việt Nam News Agency on the role of his association in taking care of Vietnamese people over the past 30 years since the Association was established.

Colleges, vocational training schools and professional and continuing education centres in HCM City aim to enrol 371,000 students in 2021.  

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) welcomes the chance to improve the protection of Vietnamese migrant workers brought by the newly-revised Law on Contract-Based Vietnamese Overseas Workers.

Lò Thị Tím, from the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên, has devoted her life to SOS Children's Village, saying that she was absolutely right in choosing this humanitarian job.

Children’s education was severely set back due to schools being flooded, access roads blocked and homes being destroyed.

A tropical depression at East Sea (internally known as South China Sea) has turned into tropical storm Krovanh on Sunday and become the 14th typhoon of the year.

Two new imported cases confirmed this evening. One Ukrainian teenager arriving from the US and one Vietnamese woman returning from Russia.

The prioritised technologies belong to four areas namely digital technologies, physics, biotechnology, and energy and environment.

The Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh spent more than VNĐ413 billion (US$17.8 million) from central and local budgets for implementing policies for local ethnic minority groups in the 2016-20 period, creating remarkable improvements in the living conditions for Khmer communities.  

A ferry service between HCM City’s Cần Giờ District and Vũng Tàu city in the coastal southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu will be put into service by the end of December.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam has warned that Vietnamese people who have been stuck in foreign countries due to the pandemic and wish to get back home should watch out for fake advertisements for tickets on repatriation flights.

Rooftop helipad opens at HCM City Military Hospital