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A bus automatically offering free face masks and hand wash have been introduced in Ho Chi Minh City.

Two more people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 2,142, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday evening.

Various activities to support the poor and policy beneficiaries have been instigated by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs during Tet.

Hanoi authorities are determined to restart the planning for a riverside city on both sides of the Hồng (Red) River after many years of delays.

Hanoi’s Duong Lam ancient village, renowned for its unique houses built with wooden frames and fortified with laterites, still preserves typical features of old villages in the Red River Delta.

As many as 1,132 wild animals were successfully rescued in Vietnam last year, according to the Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV), a local NGO focused on the conservation of nature and the environment.

The authorities in HCM City have started testing the employees working at bus stations, shopping centres and rental areas after the outbreak at Tan Son Nhat Airport was controlled.

Going through a 2020 full of upheavals, the biggest success of Vietnamese sports was to sail through the obstacles caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to successfully organise and complete the majority of events, tournaments and plans.

Microsoft on Thursday lobbied for other countries to follow Australia's lead in calling for news outlets to be paid for stories published online, a move opposed by Facebook and Google.

With countries around the world asking their citizens to stay at home to fight COVID-19, the gaming and e-sports industry has taken off.

Vietnam has recorded no more new coronavirus cases during the past 12 hours, according to the Ministry of Health in its 06.00hrs update on February 12, the first day of the lunar New Year (Tet).

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong sent his best wishes to the entire nation and the community of overseas Vietnamese at the sacred moment when the Year of the Buffalo began.

The National Centre for Socio-Economic Information and Forecasting (NCIF) has released a forecast on Vietnam’s economic performance in 2021, with GDP growth of 6.72 percent and an average consumer price index (CPI) of 4.2 percent under an optimistic scenario.

Hanoi will organise fireworks to welcome in the Lunar New Year at just one location instead of 30 as scheduled earlier due to Covid-19 outbreak in many localities.

All of the staff at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi have tested negative for Covid-19, said an official from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

HCM City received USD6.1 billion in overseas remittances last year, up 12% on-year, said Nguyen Hoang Minh, deputy director of State Bank Ho Chi Minh City Branch.

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts remain the largest challenges for the Southeast Asian region in 2021, according to the State of Southeast Asia 2021 survey report announced by the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute on February 10.

The Hanoi Department of Health has announced the Covid-19 testing results of 500 staff at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi.

Three Vietnamese companies have won a regional challenge to combat plastic waste in Ha Long Bay.