Việt Nam News

Natural disasters have claimed 280 lives and caused a total loss of approximately VND29.9 trillion (close to US$1.29 billion) to Việt Nam since the beginning of this year, according to the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

During the rainy season from May to October, the city experiences regular flooding. A combination of high tides in the Sài Gòn and Đồng Nai rivers, heavy rains and land subsidence puts HCM City in the list of 10 cities most vulnerable to sea-level rise.

According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam, four domestic airlines will be conducting the flights – with more than half of them, 32 flights, to be done by the flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, 12 by the budget carrier Vietjet Air, five by Bamboo Airways and five by Pacific Airlines.

Provinces in the Mekong Delta have seen a decrease in the number of tourists due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new red-alert system implemented at hospitals in Hà Nội to quickly detect and treat at risk patients is already saving lives, online newspaper Vietnamplus reported.

Việt Nam Social Security launched the application VssID at an online meeting with 20,000 participants in 63 provinces and cities on Monday afternoon.

Employers’ recruitment demand in HCM City in the last months of the year is expected to see a 34 per cent decline compared to the same period last year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Five new imported COVID-19 cases were reported in Việt Nam on Tuesday, all Vietnamese returnees from Russia, which pushed the national tally to 1,288.

Having launched an e-Government system in 2014, the central city has completed 1,632 out of 1,682 online administration procedures, marking a crucial step in becoming a ‘smart city’ and the first in Việt Nam to join the ASEAN ‘smart’ city network by 2030.

The city said the 500-bed field hospital at Tiên Sơn Sports Centre was designed as a reservation site for hosting COVID-19 patients in August when the city’s two key hospitals were locked down due to COVID-19 infections.

Doctors at Tâm Đức Heart Hospital in HCM City have successfully performed a life-saving heart operation on H’Nhun Niê, a 11-year-old girl from Ê Đê ethnic group in Đắk Lắk Province, the 8,000th heart operation funded by VinaCapital Foundation’s healthcare programme Heartbeat Vietnam.

Season two of the TV game show on employment, Whose Chance? (Cơ Hội Cho Ai?), is being aired on Việt Nam Television’s channel 3 (VTV3) at noon every Saturday.

Hà Nội's farm economy in suburban districts has developed well in both quantity and quality with high turnover and creating jobs for thousands of workers in recent years.

Since establishing the Blood Bank Club in 2016 in Hòa Bình Province, Phạm Thị Ngọc Ánh’s mobile phone number has become a reliable hotline for doctors.

In the new high school education programme, textbooks are no longer the only source for teaching. Teachers have more autonomy in the teaching process, but many have not been able to catch up with the idea. Đinh Quang Báo, former principal of Hà Nội Pedagogical University, talks to VOV online newspaper about the issue

Tây Ninh Province will continue to focus on encouraging investment in agriculture for the next five years.

NGO HCM City Disabilities Research and Capacity Development Centre has launched a project to provide legal aid to and safeguard the rights of people with disabilities.