Việt Nam News

Major General Hoàng Kim Phụng, Director of the Việt Nam Department of Peacekeeping Operations (under the Ministry of Defence), spoke to local media about preparations and the mission of the Military Engineering Unit No.1 and the Level-2 Field Hospital No.4 that will depart on Wednesday (April 27, 2022) for UN peacekeeping mission.

Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are strengthening measures to prevent forest fires as the region enters its peak dry season and forests become highly vulnerable to fires.

Việt Nam is a safe tourist destination without any restrictions for Russian visitors, according to recommendations by the Federal Agency for Tourism of Russia.

To stabilise the oil and gas prices and reduce the burden of rising input costs for enterprises, the Government should take into account the reduction of some kinds of taxes and fees imposed on the products.

Việt Nam's engagement in UN peacekeeping operations over the past seven years has achieved many positive results, and at the same time opened up many new directions of deployment. Deputy Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations Mạc Đức Trọng spoke to Vietnam News Agency about these achievements.

Many patients at the COVID-19 resuscitation hospital in HCM City, managed by Huế Central Hospital, are receiving meals and medication from a robot.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam urged 175 Military Hospital in HCM City to mobilise all possible medical sources to combat the pandemic.

The first mission abroad of Captain Nguyễn Trọng Chiến, an infectious disease doctor, was in the war-ravaged Republic of South Sudan. He left Việt Nam for the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in April and has been busy with the treatment and COVID-19 prevention and control work.

Việt Nam supports a free and fair election in Iraq, with the participation of people from all walks of life, including women and youths, Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the United Nations (UN), has affirmed.

Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý expressed Việt Nam’s serious concern over recent tensions in East Jerusalem and called on sides involved to restrain themselves at an emergency UN Security Council meeting held in New York on Monday.

Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Phan Văn Giang had phone talks with his Canadian counterpart Harjit Singh Sajjan on Thursday.

Medical supplies for the effort were handed over at a ceremony held at Wattay International Airport in the country's capital Vientiane on Tuesday morning.

The diplomat called for dialogue, reconciliation, co-operation and trust-building to seek solutions to the Myanmar situation.

Việt Nam is "seriously concerned over "escalating violence and fatalities" in Myanmar recently and has asked Myanmar to protect Vietnamese citizens and businesses in the country, the foreign spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said on Thursday.