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As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the looming climate crisis has fallen down the agenda, with efforts to stave off future environmental catastrophe waylaid in favour of immediate public concerns.

Chairman of the Vietnam Railways Corporation, Vu Anh Minh has told Dantri/Dtinews that VNR carefully considered and calculated many factors including passenger and environment safety, efficiency, technology access, and convenience before proposing to import 37 old carriages from Japan.

Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, has yet to inoculate its children aged 12 to 17 against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, said Pham Duc Hai, deputy head of the HCM City Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention

Can Tho City and the provinces of Ben Tre and Soc Trang in south-western Vietnam have resumed the operations of many services and activities from today, October 19, following a long halt due to Covid-19.

Winners of Viet Solutions 2021, a contest seeking digital transformation solutions for Vietnam, were announced at a ceremony held by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi.

Dantri/DTiNews readers have donated VND140 million (USD6,086) for a woman who is facing lung cancer in the northern province of Thai Binh.

HCM City People’s Committee has proposed to spend VND15.9 trillion (USD691.31 million) on the first phase of an expressway linking the city and Moc Bai Border Gate in Tay Ninh Province.

The Vietnamese government has agreed in principle with sport authorities’ proposal to postpone the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) until the second quarter of 2022, said a Vietnamese sport official.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has proposed the Ministry of Transport permit airlines to resume domestic air routes as normal from December if the COVID-19 pandemic is controlled well nationwide.

A dubbing contest run by streaming platform Netflix and BHD company has been launched in Vietnam.

HCM City authorities have announced that the country’s pandemic hotspot has contained its largest-ever COVID outbreak and is ready to reopen the economy, Nguyễn Thị Lệ, chairwoman of the municipal People’s Council, said at a meeting on Monday.

Vietnam continued to report falling number of new Covid-19 infections with just 3,168 cases confirmed on Monday, according to a report from the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam is conducting fewer flights than scheduled due to the tight Covid-19 prevention regulations.

Five grey-shanked douc langurs have been found dead in a mountainous area in the central province of Quang Ngai.

Heavy rain and flood discharge from hydropower plants have flooded parts of the northern and central regions during the past few days, leaving three dead and four missing.

A new Covid-19 outbreak is spreading fast in the northern province of Phu Tho.

Nearly 1,500 people in 267 households in the central province of Quang Tri have been evacuated during flooding.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has officially restored its regular route between Hanoi and Can Tho in a pilot period from October 18 to 20.