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The southern province of Binh Duong surpassed Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to top the nation’s per capita monthly income in 2020, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has said.

Restaurants in Hanoi will only serve takeaway customers from May 25 following a new Covid-19 prevention directive from local authorities.

An Indian couple chartered a passenger jet to stage a mid-air wedding that hijacked coronavirus restrictions by taking more than 160 guests, reports said Monday.

An additional 57 more Covid-19 infection cases have just been confirmed in Vietnam including 45 in the virus epicenter Bac Giang, raising the total number of patients in the country to 5,461, the Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday morning.

Nguyen Huynh Kim Duyen is due to be the next contestant to represent Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2021 pageant scheduled to take place in Costa Rica this December.

A Vietnamese official on May 24 welcomed the World Health Organisation’s initiative on establishing a COVID-19 vaccine technology transfer hub, saying it is a concrete example of a new global mechanism to prepare for future pandemics.

Vietnam has confirmed one more Covid-19 death who is a 38-year-old woman in the northern province of Bac Giang.

An additional 96 more Covid-19 infection cases have just been confirmed in Vietnam, raising the Monday counts to 187 and the total number of patients in the country to 5,404, the Ministry of Health reported on Monday evening.

People still flock to the Red River in Hanoi for relaxation despite the city’s ban of gatherings of more than 10 people amid Covid-19 outbreak.

More apartment buildings in Hanoi have been locked down following news of Covid-19 infections.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday ordered subordinate levels to expeditiously work out a strategy for COVID-19 prevention at industrial parks.

The Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Incheon Seaport Corporation announced on May 24 that it has begun tapping a new container route from Incheon port to ports in Thailand and Vietnam.

The Government of Vietnam, Government of Australia, and the United Nations agencies of UNFPA, UNICEF and UN Women have committed working together and called for more joint efforts to end violence against women and children at the Monday’s ceremony

The United States is testing its USCGC John Midgett coast guard ship, a Hamilton-class cutter in Washington, and is expected to deliver it to Vietnam in the coming weeks.

33 more Covid-19 infection cases have just been confirmed in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 5,308, the Ministry of Health reported at noon on Monday.

The headquarters of the T&T Group on Pham Su Manh Street, Hanoi's Hoan Kiem District, has been locked down after some Covid-19 infections were found.

In recent years, Hanoi authorities have focused on forming many new residential areas and expanding transport infrastructure to meet the rapid speed of urbanisation and population growth.

Vietnam’s 43rd Covid-19 death of a 50-year-old man with serious underlying medical conditions was confirmed on Monday morning.

Twenty-one people were killed after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a cross-country mountain race in China, state media said Sunday.