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The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has asked other ministries, agencies and localities to take action in response to World Wetlands Day (February 2).

Yuichiro welled up as he collected a food parcel at a Tokyo outreach event offering help to the growing number of Japanese pushed into poverty by the coronavirus pandemic.

Phap Van-Cau Gie Expressway in Hanoi, which now has six lanes, has been proposed to be expanded to 8-10 lanes.

Hundreds of reporters, editors, and technicians who are assigned to work at the 13th National Party Congress were provided with their first Covid-19 test on Monday.

The Vietnam Travel Aviation Company Limited (Vietravel Airlines), Vietnam’s sixth carrier, will open ticket sales for commercial flights starting from January 19.

A food and tourism festival will take place in Nha Trang city in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa from January 29 - 31.

Foxconn Singapore PTE Ltd will build a 270-million USD plant to produce laptops and tablets at Quang Chau industrial park in the northern province of Bac Giang.

The Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company has exported 10 containers of seed milk to China early this year and is expected to ship five more containers of sweetened condensed milk products to China in the near future.

The third Inoue Yasushi Awards by the Japan Foundation and Inoue Yasushi Memorial Foundation honoured four Vietnamese authors for their thesis on novels by Japanese writers.

An exhibition on the Communist Party of Vietnam has just opened to mark the CPV’s 91st founding anniversary (February 3, 1930) and welcome the upcoming 13th National Party Congress.

India on Monday stepped up efforts to bolster trust in coronavirus vaccines after it was revealed that nearly a third of those invited to get jabs at the launch of a nationwide drive failed to turn up.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam has asked local airlines not to let planes sit idle for over a month to ensure aviation safety.

A Costa Rican and a Vietnamese citizens who recently arrived in Vietnam have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, raising the total number of Covid-19 patients in the country to 1,539, the Ministry of Health reported on Monday evening.

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.