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Vietnam confirmed 174 more Covid-19 infections as of Friday evening, raising the daily counts to 254 and the total number of patients in the country to 6,570, the Ministry of Health has reported.

Areas in Hanoi that are near the Covid-19 epicentres of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh provinces have set up more check-points among the epidemic mitigation measures.

Dantri readers have sent hundreds of millions of VND to support the frontline workers against the Covid-19 pandemic via Dantri's charity programme, Million Hearts-One Will.

Vietnam has confirmed the 47th fatality, a 22-year-old woman with underlying diseases in the northern province of Phu Tho.

The United States will assist countries, including Vietnam, to get access to a roll-out of its 80 million doses through the United Nation-managed COVAX Facility and other partners.

Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City has suspended flights from abroad during the current Covid-19 outbreak.

Five hundred people have been transferred to the newly-built Field Hospital 2 and thousands of others at industrial parks have been moved to quarantine centres overnight to curb the Covid-19 outbreak in Bac Giang.

Officials from the Embassy of Vietnam in Israel on May 27 visited Vietnamese students living in Israel’s central city of Netivot, one of the hardest-hit places during the recent Israel-Palestine conflict in the Gaza Strip.

An additional 40 more Covid-19 infections have been confirmed in Vietnam as of Friday noon, raising the total number of patients in the country to 6,396, the Ministry of Health has reported.

An Bang and My Khe beaches in central Vietnam have been named among the top 25 most beautiful beaches throughout Asia, as voted on by readers of renowned travel website TripAdvisor.

Pedestrian streets, night markets and various services will be suspended from May 28 in Ho Chi Minh City amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

More crops in a commune in the southern province of Dong Nai have been destroyed by wild elephants.

Aye Mar sits with her seven children in their Yangon kitchen and worries whether their meal of rice and stringy vegetables -- all she can afford in coup-stricken Myanmar -- will satisfy their hunger.

Vietnam has logged 40 more domestically-transmitted Covid-19 cases in the past 12 hours, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday morning.

This November, the UK will welcome the countries of the world to Glasgow for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, COP26. This week I am visiting Viet Nam to get us on track to address the enormous threat of

Streets in Bac Giang City in the northern province of Bac Giang have become deserted during the Covid-19 outbreak lockdown.

Authorities in Bac Ninh and Bac Giang provinces have started giving the first Covid-19 vaccine shots to a total of 240,000 workers at local industrial parks.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a USD116 million green loan with Lien Lap Wind Power Joint Stock Company, Phong Huy Wind Power Joint Stock Company, and Phong Nguyen Wind Power Joint Stock Company to build and operate

Vietnam requests parties concerned to respect its sovereignty and international law and abide by the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.