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As the market is witnessing adjustments in the rate of ownership for foreign investors in banks, analysts say that it depends on the strategy and business plan of each bank from time to time.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung has signed an action programme to make tourism a spearhead sector and put Vietnam into top 50 nations with the highest tourism competitiveness in the world.

The nation was elected to the Postal Operations Council (POC) for the first time at the 27th Universal Postal Union Congress (UPU), which was held on August 27 in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast.

Vietnam’s national team left Vietnam for their first match against Saudi Arabia in the final round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers.

A state employee in Hanoi's Ba Dinh District has been suspended for allegedly receiving bribes from people who do not want to wait to have their Covid-19 vaccine shots.

Hanoi has closed the Ngoc Ha Market in Ba Dinh District after a trader tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Dantri/DTiNews has sent 300 gifts to help low-income people in Can Tho City cope with the Covid-19 pandemic via the Stay Strong Vietnam Charity Programme.

The World Health Organization has handed over medical supplies and consumables to the Ministry of Health as part of its continuing support to the Vietnamese Government for COVID-19 response.

Results from the phase 3a clinical trial of the domestically-produced COVID-19 vaccine Nanocovax on more than 1,000 volunteers have been adopted by the National Biomedical Research Ethics Council (NBREC).

HCM City has proposed to the local customs department to import second-hand ambulances from South Korea to deal with the lack of vehicles to transport Covid-19 patients.

The Ministry of Transport has ordered localities to remove inappropriate Covid-19 prevention regulations which hinder goods transportation.

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son held phone talks with his counterparts from Australia and Serbia on August 27 and thanked them for COVID-19 vaccine donation to help Vietnam combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Vietnam will add 18 new routes, 1,528km in total length, to its national railway network by 2050, according to a draft planning for the 2021 – 2030 period, with a vision towards 2050.

The 12th National Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) is set to take place in Hanoi in December next year, with the participation of 250 guests and 1,000 official delegates.

HCM City’s medical facilities are providing treatment for 2,321 Covid-19-infected children aged below 16, according to the municipal Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention.

Vietnam announced 17,428 more Covid-19 infections on Friday and 10,126 patients recovered from the diseases the same day, according to the Ministry of Health.

Australia delivered 403,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Vietnam on Thursday.

An additional 263,250 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived on August 27 in Hanoi.

Authorities in HCM City have transferred over 2,000 people that live in poor or at high-risk areas to quarantine centres to aid in Covid-19 prevention.