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The US Agency for International Development and its partner, PATH, on Tuesday celebrated the completion of the eight-year USAID/PATH Healthy Markets project and launched the new five-year USAID/PATH STEPS project which aims to end HIV/AIDS in Vietnam.

Hundreds of people queued to get a fourth Covid-19 dose in Thu Duc City, HCM City on June 14.

An event honouring 100 outstanding blood donors nationwide, particularly during COVID-19 outbreaks, is slated for mid-August, as part of myriad activities marking World Blood Donor Day (June 14) in Vietnam.

More than 130 people were hospitalised with breathing difficulties following a chemical leak at a factory in southern Iran, state media reported on Tuesday.

Vietnam jumped six notches to 89th in the cost of living index rankings for 2022 with 37.48 points, as compiled by Numbeo.

Four people have died and five others were seriously injured after a passenger bus collided with a motorbike in the northern province of Ninh Binh late Monday night.

Events run by the Indian Embassy in Vietnam to mark the 8th International Day of Yoga 2022 (June 21), themed ‘Yoga for Humanity’, are set to take place nationwide.

HCM City Department of Transport has proposed launching tourist boat services to the Mekong Delta provinces of Ben Tre and Tien Giang.

Many streets in Hanoi were deeply submerged after heavy rain on Monday evening.

The United Nations is launching a crowd-funding campaign for an operation intended to prevent an ageing Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea, a senior official said Monday.

Industrial and export processing zones based in Hanoi have unveiled that it attracted four new investment projects and 12 expanded projects featuring a total investment capital of US$ 81 million during the opening five months of the year.

Many firms in southern industrial zones in HCM City, Binh Duong, and Dong Nai are facing labour shortages despite offering higher salaries.

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has joined Vietnamese government and public health leaders to celebrate the start of the installation of a new liquid oxygen system provided by the US Agency for International Development.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday launched a new project to help Vietnam control illegal wildlife trafficking.

An additional 617 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Monday, raising the national tally to over 10.73 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

Retail petrol prices increased from 3 pm Monday, June 13, to the highest rate ever, marking the sixth consecutive rise.

A poor family in the southern central province of Binh Dinh is calling for help as up to three of the five members in the family are ailing.

A ceremony took place on Sunday to bid farewell to the remaining 156 members of Vietnam's Engineering Unit Rotation 1, as they left for peacekeeping duty at the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei.

Beijing started a new round of mass testing in its most populous downtown district on Monday after a rapidly spreading outbreak linked to a bar saw Covid rules tightened again in the capital.