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The southeastern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu is taking urgent measures to prevent forest fires as the area enters the peak period of the dry season.

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi organised a programme on February 4 (the 23rd day of the last month of the lunar year) themed "Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet) - a sacred space", with the participation of researchers

The southern province of Binh Duong has decided to temporarily stop receiving foreign experts to work in the area amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

Hanoi is unlikely to see any major changes in its apartment market this year or experience the short supply as seen in HCM City, Director of Savills Hanoi Matthew Powell has said.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited and gave Tet presents to disadvantaged people at the Quang Nam Social Protection Centre on February 5.

The Vietnam Study Promotion Fund, Dantri Online Newspaper, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has just announced a campaign to help build 100 houses for low-income people in Quang Binh Province.

A single mother in Kien Giang Province is calling for financial support to help save her 12-year-old son from leukaemia after they were abandoned by the father.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed the Ministry of Transport extend the closure of Van Don International Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh to better curb the spread of COVID-19.

Three more hotels in HCM City have been allowed to offer paid quarantine services for Covid-19 prevention.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam hosted a reception in Hanoi for Chief Representatives of the UN Development Programme, the UN Children Fund, and the World Health Organisation in Vietnam.

Vietnam hopes to further strengthen the comprehensive partnership with the US under the Biden administration, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam Pham Binh Minh told newly-appointed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during phone talks on February 5.

The second train for a metro route in Hanoi has arrived at the northern city of Hai Phong’s port.

Doctors at Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital have set a record after successfully performing a heart transplant on a 7-year-old child of Hanoi, the youngest patient of its kind in Vietnam.

Vietnam has recorded 19 more Covid-19 infection cases, raising the total number of patients in the country to 1,976, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday evening.

Authorities in the central highlands province of Dak Nong have just arrested a local man for allegedly swindling money from several people in the area.

The health sector has identified three changes in the strategy for COVID-19 prevention and control, relating to the combination of samples for testing, home quarantine for children, and the transportation of goods stuck in pandemic-hit areas.

A truck has hit an electric pylon in the central province of Nghe An, killing three people.

The majority of migrant workers in HCM City’s export processing zones and industrial parks have decided not to return home for the Lunar New Year due to fears about Covid-19 infections.

Hanoi authorities have fined four local residents for publishing false information about Covid-19 on their Facebook accounts.