Việt Nam News

Hospitals in HCM City have set up separate areas for health declarations, COVID-19 screenings, and emergency aid as required by the city Department of Health following two new domestically transmitted cases in the city.

A total of 54 new cases of COVID-19, including one imported case and 53 community cases, were confirmed on Friday evening, according to the Ministry of Health.

Việt Nam’s fruit sector should focus on gaining trust from domestic consumers before focusing on exports, said deputy general director of the Plant Cultivation Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Nguyễn Như Cường.

Two designs by the HCM City–based company Tropical Space won awards at the Architects Regional Council Asia (Arcasia) Awards for Architecture 2018 in Tokyo last week.

Việt Nam has exported its fruit to high-standard markets in recent years, such as the US, the European Union and Japan, but increasing export volume is no easy task.

Vietnamese design company H&P Architects has recently been named among the July Winners and Popular Choice Winners of the prestigious Architizer A+Awards.

Hundreds of maple trees have been planted on Nguyễn Chí Thanh, Láng Hạ and Trần Duy Hưng streets in Hà Nội in the past weeks to increase the capital’s green space.

 Sungroup plans to open its luxury resort complex Sun Premier Village Hạ Long Bay at Wyndham Legend Halong Hotel in the Northern Province of Quảng Ninh on July 1.

The first decorative mural painting, part of an art project to turn Đà Nẵng Airport into a tropical garden, by artists from Tân Hà Nội Art Company was recently completed.

Born and raised in a small village on the bank of Thu Bồn River, potter Lê Đức Hạ started creating items out of clay in the late 1980s, after leaving the army as a volunteer soldier in Cambodia. He now works hard to preserve the craftsmanship of traditional pottery in Viet Nam, with a range of unique designs.

With nearly 1,000 kilometres of rivers and canals, the potential for developing waterway tourism in the HCM City metropolitan area is enormous, but this is limited by the lack of a serious effort to avoid pitfalls like increasing pollution.