Vicostone posts higher profit in Q4 despite COVID-19 pandemic

Vicostone Joint Stock Company (HNX: VCS), a member of Phenikaa Group, posted respective year-on-year increases of 11.76 per cent and 2.48 per cent in its net revenue and pre-tax in the fourth quarter. 

Down at the pub of lost souls

Everything needs to change with the times, even auspicious festivals that are centuries old. And so it is with Việt Nam’s Ghost Festival (Tết Trung Nguyên), which falls Sunday.

Freelance illustrator portrays pandemic memories in paintings

A series of paintings depicting the experience of a young freelance illustrator having the coronavirus vaccine has recently gone viral

Domestic Covivac vaccine to recruit volunteers for phase 2 clinical trials

The Covivac vaccine research team has begun to screen and recruit 375 volunteers to participate in the second phase of clinical trials

Việt Nam expects more COVID-19 vaccine support from US Việt Nam hopes the US Government will continue giving priority assistance to Việt Nam to access coronavirus vaccine supplies and create favourable conditions for partners to research and transfer virus vaccine production technology to the country.

War veteran joins coronavirus battle

Vietnamese soldiers fought invaders during the American war, and now a veteran is supporting the national fight against a deadly invisible enemy, the COVID pandemic.

Việt Nam may approve homegrown Nano Covax vaccine for emergency use Việt Nam is evaluating its domestically developed coronavirus vaccine, Nano Covax, for possible approval for emergency use across the country.

Additional 6 million doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer vaccines to arrive in Việt Nam in Q3 Six million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines – half from the UK’s AstraZeneca and half from the US’s Pfizer – will arrive in Việt Nam in the third quarter of this year, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.

US to give 80 mn vaccine doses to priority nations, including Việt Nam President Joe Biden outlined his plan on Thursday for the first of 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses that the US will distribute globally before July, with 75 per cent of shots disbursed via the COVAX scheme.

India posts new Covid record as global cases hit 150 million India on Friday posted another grimglobal record for daily coronavirus infections, pushing worldwide cases past 150 million, as the WHO listed the US made Moderna vaccine for emergency use.