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HCM City People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong has extended social distancing for 14 more days due to the complicated Covid-19 situation in the area.

An additional 100 more Covid-19 infections have been confirmed in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 10,730, the Ministry of Health reported at noon on Monday.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has raised warnings after many people have been found to use fake driver licenses for flight check-ins.

Miss Vietnam 2020 Do Thi Ha, a student at the Hanoi-based National Economics University, is working to prepare for her appearance at the Miss World 2021 in Puerto Rico in December.

The winner of Iran's presidential election will face a host of tough challenges once he takes over from Hassan Rouhani in August.

A photo contest running with the theme of “Vietnam through the lens of foreign photographers” has been launched by the Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Public buses have been left deserted during the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak in HCM City.

Vietnam documented an additional 92 Covid-19 patients in the past 12 hours to 6 am on Monday, including 91 locally-infected cases, the Ministry of Health has reported.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recognised the making of fish sauce on Phu Quoc island city in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang as a national intangible cultural heritage in late May, creating a driving force

Vietnam has confirmed 103 more Covid-19 infections, raising the Sunday tally to 297 and the total number of patients in the country to 10,538, the Ministry of Health has reported.

The World’s Universities with Real Impact (WURI), a new university ranking system run by the Hanseatic League of Universities, has honoured two Vietnamese in its global top 100 Innovative Universities.

Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is predicted to expand 5.8% in the first half of 2021, a lower-than-expected growth compared to the set target, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

Contractors building eight wind power plants in Soc Trang province have promised to speed up work so that they can begin generating electricity before the end of October.

Vietnam recorded 98 new COVID-19 cases, including 95 local infections, in the past 6 hours to 12pm on June 13, according to the Health Ministry.

The tourism sector of the southernmost province of Ca Mau is taking measures to adapt to the “new normal” situation amid complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that it had remained free of COVID-19 so far.

Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it will allow 60,000 residents vaccinated against Covid to perform this year's hajj, but Muslims from abroad will be barred for a second straight year.

State-owned giant Vietnam Railways (VNR) has faced many difficulties due to the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, leaving thousands of its workforce unemployed.

The central province of Quang Nam has decided to use several five-star coastal resort and hotel complexes as paid quarantine sites for people coming from abroad.