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Many enterprises in the southern province of Dong Nai have been fined for permitting their labourers who tested positive for Covid-19 to return home without local authority approval.

The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region needs “consistent strategies” to deal with groundwater extraction, land subsidence and saltwater intrusion in an increasingly urbanising area, experts said at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 25.

Vietnam is assessed to have plenty of room to compete for foreign direct investment (FDI) against major competitors in the current global production shift, said Nguyen Bich Lam, former Director General of the General Statistics Office.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has stated that Vietnam will offer all possible support for Swiss firms to cooperate with Vietnamese partners.

It is a must to produce COVID-19 vaccines and treatment drugs domestically, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a meeting with representatives from ministries and agencies in Hanoi on November 27.

An additional 16,052 Covid-19 infections were reported in Vietnam on Saturday, raising the total number of patients in the country to 1,197,404, according to the Ministry of Health.

A poor man in the northern province of Bac Giang is calling for the community's help for his two ailing children.

Vietjet and SR Technics have inked a Memorandum of Understanding worth 150 million USD involving the provision of MRO services on Vietjet’s CFM56-5B engine fleet, installed on their Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft.

The total foreign direct investment into Vietnam between January and November this year has reached USD26.46 billion, up 0.1 percent on-year.

Many localities in Vietnam have halted non-essential services and activities because of the reoccurrences of Covid-19.

Many trees have been destroyed for wood by poachers in Bac Huong Hoa Nature Reserve in the central province of Quang Tri.

A Vietnam Innovation Network in Chinese Taipei (VIN Taiwan) has been set up in Taiwan (China), thereby marking a new stage in the development of the Vietnamese intellectual community in the territory, according to the Ministry of Planning and

The Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment held a consultation session with retailers on stepping up the implementation of a communication plan on reducing plastic bags.

Hon Tre Island in Nha Trang City in the southern central province of Khanh Hoa has been identified as a potential tourism hub.

Hang Ma Street in Hanoi is being covered with colourful decorations over a month before Christmas.

Vietnam held its place as the seventh largest tea supplier to the United States during the past nine months of the year with 4,100 tonnes worth US$5.7 million, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

A shipment of 2,074,410 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Hanoi early Friday morning, donated to Vietnam by the US Government.

President of Switzerland Guy Parmelin hosted an official welcome ceremony for his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who is paying an official visit to the European country, in Bern city on November 26 morning (local time).

Vietnam has successfully packed over one million doses of the Sputnik V Covid-19 Vaccine and will start using the vaccine from this December.