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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.

As many as 152 more Covid-19 infections have been confirmed in Vietnam, raising the total number of patients in the country to 6,316, the Ministry of Health reported on Thursday evening.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has just announced the 46th Covid-19-related death in the country.

HCM City authorities have detected a cluster of Covid-19 infection cases on a cargo ship from India and another cluster connected to a Christian sect.

General Director of the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration Tran Hong Thai has been re-elected as Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)’s Region II (Asia) for another term of 2021 – 2024.

Foreign investors have pumped approximately US$14 billion into the nation during the opening five months of the year, marking an annual rise of 0.8%, with Singapore taking the lead after making a total investment of US$5.26 billion.

An official in Bac Ninh Province has proposed to let workers live inside local factories to prevent Covid-19 from spreading inside industrial parks while firms also have proposed letting employees stay at hotels and guesthouses.

Residents of an area in the central city of Danang that faced a lockdown celebrated after their isolation ended.

An additional 53 more Covid-19 infections have been confirmed in Vietnam as of Thursday noon, raising the total number of patients in the country to 6,164, the Ministry of Health reported.