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Winners of the Kovalevskaya Award 2020, a prize dedicated to outstanding female scientists, were announced at a ceremony held jointly by the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and the Vietnam Women’s Union Central Committee.

Six more people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,494, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday evening.

Hundreds of people in Hanoi lined up to help farmers in Hai Duong Province by buying their chickens.

Authorities in Thua Thien-Hue Province have released over 41,000 young fish into the Huong River.

The first dose of Covid-19 vaccines will be given to the public on March 8, according to the Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.

Cambodia has again delayed the 13th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) to the fourth quarter of this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Japan will extend a coronavirus state of emergency in the Tokyo area by a fortnight, officials said Friday, less than five months ahead of the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics.

A widow from Tay ethnic group in Thai Nguyen Province is calling for financial support to save her son from heart disease.

The girl who was rescued after falling from the 12th floor of an apartment building in Hanoi has just been discharged from the hospital in good health.

Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed to reopen religious sites from March 8 while preventive regulations will continue to be maintained.

Vietnamese audiences will have an opportunity to enjoy seven classic and modern French movies to be screened in Vietnam from March 1 to December 31.

Foreign tech giants like Facebook, Google, and YouTube will have to pay taxes in Vietnam under a draft circular, after years of invoicing their revenues out of the country.

Mayor of Hanoi capital Chu Ngoc Anh has directed the Hanoi Police to urgently investigate and strictly handle sexual assaults against foreign women in the West Lake area in Tay Ho district.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh held phone talks with Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan on March 4.

A Covid-19 patient in Hanoi is now in a critical condition with serious lung damage.

Animal abusers will be fined from VND1m (USD43) to tens millions of VND as new decree takes effect.

Six more people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam's Covid-19 hotspot of Hai Duong, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,488, the Ministry of Health reported on Thursday evening.

As many as 390 Vietnamese citizens have just been brought home from Myanmar on two Vietnam Airlines flights which landed at Danang International Airport on Thursday afternoon.

Vietnam will face Indonesia on June 7, Malaysia on June 11 and the United Arab Emirates on June 15 at the Asian Qualifiers of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, instead of meeting Malaysia first as the old schedule,