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With dozens of new cases detected daily during the past days, the capital of Hanoi on November 1 raised its COVID-19 alert level from ‘green’ to ‘orange’ to halt the spread of the virus in the community.

The Vietnam Railway Project Management Board under the Ministry of Transport has submitted to the ministry a project with total investment of over VND2.2 trillion (US$95.88 million) to improve railway connections between Vietnam's Lao Cai Station and China's North

Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh has called on countries to make strong commitments to reduce greenhouse emissions on the basis of common responsibility that suit their conditions and capacity.

Standard Chartered will invest US$8 billion in Vietnam’s sustainable development in order to promote its green and sustainable growth, the bank’s chairman Jose Vinals told Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting in the United Kingdom on

Vietnamese Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan paid an official visit to Greece at the invitation of Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou from October 31 – November 2.

Hanoi has planned to begin the Covid-19 vaccination for children aged 12-17 from the fourth quarter of this year.

The Chinese cargo ship that had been stranded in the central province of Quang Tri for nearly half a month has been successfully rescued.

Vietnam confirmed an additional 5,598 Covid-19 infections on Monday, raising the patient tally in the country to 923,451, according to the Ministry of Health.

Hanoi authorities have allowed schools in areas of low-risk Covid-19 infection to be reopened from November 8.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted leaders of ten foreign corporations and leading British universities in Edinburg, Scotland, on October 31 (local time), as part of his visit to the UK for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).

Work on HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport Terminal 3 is scheduled to kick off in December.

Many young people celebrated Halloween on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in HCM City after the Covid-19 pandemic was brought under control in the city.

A Houthi ballistic missile attack on a mosque and a religious school killed and injured 29 civilians, including women and children, in the Yemeni province of Marib, the country's information minister said in a statement on Twitter on Monday.

Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed a total of 26 cooperation documents worth billions of US dollars on October 31 during Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s current visit to the UK.

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has officially confirmed that Vietnam Airlines meets all security requirements to operate a regular commercial direct flights to the US from October 25, the national flag carrier announced on November 1.

The first metro line in Hanoi connecting Cat Linh and Ha Dong will offer free travel for all passengers on the first 15 days of official operation while the daily fares afterwards will cost VND 30,000 per person.

Ahead of PM Pham Minh Chinh's attendance at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties in the UK, Vietnamese Ambassador to the UK Nguyen Hoang Long discussed the upcoming trip in a recent media interview.

The wide variety of Vietnamese spices with their own characteristics are the positive factors that make Vietnam an important supplier of spices for the world market.