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HCM City has added six more hotels that can be used to quarantine people and flight crews coming from abroad.

The Ministry of Transport wants to conduct a pre-feasibility study of a USD10 billion railway project connecting HCM City and Can Tho City in the southern region of Vietnam.

A foreign resident jumped into a river in the central city of Danang to save a man from committing suicide.

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged Monday to tackle surging coronavirus cases and restore normal life "as soon as possible" as polls showed plunging support for his government.

Dantri/DTiNews has opened new classrooms and a staff rooms in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang.

Da Lat city in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong aims to welcome more than 4 million visitors, including 150,000 foreigners in 2021, as announced by the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Authorities in some northern border provinces have detained hundreds of Vietnamese illegally re-entering the country from China.

A former deputy minister and 18 others have been summoned for their alleged connection with the State property misuse and mismanagement case of ex-Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang at the Saigon Beer - Alcohol - Beverage

Leaders of Vietnam and China have exchanged greetings on the 71st anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic relations (January 18, 1950 - 2021).

Forty-one outstanding girls are competing for the crown of the Vietnam Miss University 2020 during the final round held from January 13-20 in Hanoi.

India's Covid-19 vaccination drive had a successful start with more than 190,000 people receiving their first jabs and no one hospitalised for major side effects, the health ministry said, but reports emerged about concerns over the homegrown vaccine.

The US Trade Representative (USTR) has decided against recommending punitive tariffs on Vietnamese exports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said on Saturday.

The local coffee industry has been urged to develop its value chain, strengthen connectivity between production and trade, whilst developing export markets and building brands to achieve the export target of US$6 billion by 2030.

An environment monitoring project for mangrove aquaculture (AQUAM) in Ca Mau was kicked off on January 15 by the Mekong Delta province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Australia’s University of Queensland and the Greenfield Consulting and Development Ltd (GFD).

Vietnam aims to provide social insurance coverage for all elderly people nationwide by 2021, said Deputy General Director of Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Tran Dinh Lieu at a meeting of the Vietnam National Committee on Ageing (VNCA) on January 15.

A book street located in Ho Chi Minh City has served to greatly contribute to establishing a reading culture in the southern metropolis whilst also becoming an ideal cultural destination for visitors, according to Nguyen Van Nen, Ho Chi

The yearly amount of remittances sent by Vietnamese guest workers to Vietnam from abroad is between US$3 billion and US$4 billion per year, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Vice-Chairman of HCM City People's Committee Le Hoa Binh has met with Dutch Ambassador to Vietnam, Elizabeth Akkerman, to discuss co-operation over sustainable flood prevention planning for Thu Duc City.