Society

The Ministry of Information and Communications will host a national online book fair from April 15 to May 15 in celebration of the eighth Vietnam Book Day, which falls on April 21 each year.

Border guards in the southern province of Ben Tre recently released a rare turtle weighing 45 kilos back into the sea.

Hanoi People's Committee started the groundbreaking ceremony to build a new children's palace at the CV1 Park in Cau Giay District on March 15.

Three more people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after returning to Vietnam from overseas, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,557, the Ministry of Health reported on Monday evening.

A crane collapse in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has killed two people and injured another.

Beijing was cloaked in thick yellow smog on Monday with pollution levels surging off the charts as the worst sandstorm in a decade descended on China's capital.

Thousands of people flocked to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam Province during the weekend to pray, overcrowding the pagoda and breaking Covid-19 preventive measures.

Vietnamese scientists have for the first time successfully cloned pigs using the somatic cells of ear tissue.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee opened the 54th session on March 15 in Hanoi in order to provide opinions on a summary report regarding the working performance of the 14th National Assembly and the NA Standing Committee.

An elderly woman in Thanh Hoa Province is calling for financial help to support her two sons who are both having mental problems.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has for the first time awarded a prime construction contract to a local Vietnamese contractor for its Dioxin Remediation at Bien Hoa Airbase Area project.

Andrix Serrano studies alone inside a Manila slum shack he shares with his street-sweeper grandmother. Like many in his fourth-grade class, he has no internet for his shuttered school's online lessons.

The Hanoi Medical University on Monday will start the clinical trials on the second locally-produced Covid-19 vaccine called Covivac.

Exclusive adventure tours taking visitors into Son Doong cave, the largest cave in the world located in Quang Binh province, are fully booked for the entirety of the year ahead, said Nguyen Chau A, director of Tourist Company Oxalis

A Japanese man has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,554, the Ministry of Health reported on Sunday evening.

Cambodia logged an additional 41 COVID-19 infections on March 14 morning, raising the number of cases linked with the “February 20 Community Event” to 792.

Saltwater intrusion will affect about 40,000ha of fruits and 5,000ha of rice in the Mekong Delta this month, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Irrigation Department.

The Embassy of Vietnam in India, together with ASIA DMC Vietnam and India’s Allena Group, held a conference on March 12 to promote Vietnam’s tourism and images in Chandigarh - the capital city of both northern Haryana and Punjab states.