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Thu Duc City and 16 districts in HCM City have basically brought Covid-19 under control, said Pham Duc Hai, deputy head of the municipal Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.

The Hanoi-based Vietnam Germany Hospital on Monday evening moved over 1,000 patients and their caretakers to other hospitals in an effort to curb the Covid-19 outbreak here.

Dragon fruit, a speciality of Bình Thuận Province, is expected to be awarded the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) certificate in Japan.

ASEAN Foreign Ministers met virtually on October 4 to review the ASEAN Community building process, the bloc’s cooperation with its dialogue partners, the East Sea issue, and a number of issues of mutual concern.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a ceremony in Hanoi on October 4 to symbolically receive 1.5 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility with the assistance from the US Government.

Despite serious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign investments in Vietnam in the first nine months of 2021 rose, showing investors' trust and optimism about the country’s socio-economic recovery and development in the coming time, Deputy Minister of Planning

Vietnam confirmed an additional 5,383 Covid-19 infections on Monday and 27,683 more patients recovered from the diseases the same day, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam has proposed that cities and provinces nationwide can consider using pagodas as quarantine sites for returnees from Covid-19-hit areas.

Authorities of the central province of Thua-Thien Hue will fine local residents who spontaneously return home from Covid-19-hit areas which are applying social distancing measures.

A poor disabled man in the northern province of Thai Nguyen has just started construction of his new houses using financial support from Dantri/Dtinews' readers.

The Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) is seeking opinions from localities for a draft plan on the reopening of passenger train services from October 7 after a long halt due to Covid-19.

Many streets in Hanoi have become congested after the city’s social distancing measures were relaxed.

Several provinces in the Mekong Delta region are facing Covid-19 prevention difficulties due to the large number of people returning from other localities.

Japan’s parliament on Monday voted Fumio Kishida the country’s next prime minister, with the new leader expected to announce a cabinet including both holdovers and fresh faces.

The 13th Party Central Committee opened its fourth session in Hanoi on October 4 under the chair of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to have the first strong cold snap next week, according to Tran Quang Nang, head of the National Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecasting’s Weather Forecast Department.

st episode of a digital series called “Vinawoman – Ban linh Viet Nam”, “Vinawoman – Vietnam’s courage” in English, is set to launch at 8 p.m. on October 2 to help find the winners of Miss Universe Vietnam 2021.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 3 sent out a letter calling for the enhancement of labour skills to help the country develop prosperously.