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A team of doctors successfully completed open heart surgery inside a Russian hospital that caught fire on Friday as firefighters battled the flames from the outside, regional emergency services said.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Vietnam Chemicals Agency (VCA) has jointly organised a workshop to raise awareness and share experiences on green chemistry with businesses and universities in Vietnam.

The three winners of this year’s Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) contest organised by USAID and Dow Vietnam have been announced.

The Việt Nam Restaurant Association, in coordination with the Việt Nam Cuisine Culture Association and the World Food Travel Association, has launched the Việt Nam Food Travel Map to promote local cuisine and tourist destinations.

The northern province of Quang Ninh, home to the world heritage Ha Long Bay, plans to organise 88 events and programmes to promote local tourism, including 35 at provincial level and 53 at district and communal levels.

Vietnam has reached out for support to fulfil the target to ensure 150 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines in 2021 to achieve herd immunity.

Hanoi has the highest cost of living in Vietnam, according to a report about the Spatial Cost of Living Index (SCOLI) issued by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

Salvage teams began removing mangled train carriages on Saturday after Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people, as flags flew half-mast across an island plunged into mourning.

An exhibition displaying artworks by children with autism is being held in Hanoi to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day (April 2).

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue held phone talks with his Lao counterpart Saysomphone Phomvihane on April 2, during which Hue thanked the Lao NA leader who was the first leader to send a congratulatory letter after he

Vietnamese for the first time surpassed people from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to become the second biggest foreign-born community in Japan, according to the largest data of the Immigration Services Agency of Japan (ISA).

Lawmakers began the process of relieving incumbent Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of his post on April 1 and are scheduled to elect a new Government leader on April 5.

A resolution on relieving Nguyen Phu Trong from the post of State President for the 2016 – 2021 tenure was approved by the National Assembly (NA) on April 2 afternoon.

Two Vietnamese people and a Filipino man who recently arrived in Vietnam from abroad have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,620, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday evening.

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated VND556.311 million (USD24,197) for a poor ethnic minority boy in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.

The Can Gio District in HCM City will be developed into a resort, ecotourism centre.

The Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro route in Hanoi is facing a shortage of staff as preparations for commercial operation near completion.

The National Assembly Standing Committee on April 2 presented to the NA a proposal on relieving Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong from the post of State President.

Dozens of people are feared dead after a packed train derailed inside a tunnel in Taiwan on Friday at the start of a long holiday weekend, with rescuers still scrambling to reach others trapped inside.