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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has asked local authorities to suspend all festivals and limit other cultural, sporting and tourism activities to focus on Covid-19 preventive measures.

The Prime Minister has approved a proposal from Vietnam Electricity (EVN) to expand the national grid from the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang to Ba Ria-Vung Tau province’s Con Dao Island via submarine cables.

Besides offering beautiful beaches, Nha Trang attracts visitors with its pagodas, temple towers, and marine world display.

The photography month, entitled “Photo Hanoi ‘21”, will be held during May, aiming to connect the public with the art of photography.

The Vietnamese Embassy in India is working with related agencies to arrange repatriation flights for emergency cases.

A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site killed at least 44 people in northern Israel on Friday, with rescue workers facing chaotic crowds while trying to evacuate the injured.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on April 29 visited some families in Hanoi whose members took part in the Ho Chi Minh Campaign, which was the peak of the General Offensive and Uprising in the spring of 1975 that

Two more people in the northern province of Ha Nam have tested positive for Covid-19 after coming into close contact with a local man who was confirmed positive earlier on Thursday.

Hanoi has decided to temporarily close karaoke parlours, games stations and bars from today, April 30, after a local man tested positive for Covid-19.

The Government has ordered preparations for the scenario of 30,000 COVID-19 infection cases in Viet Nam.

The commercial operational date of Hanoi's Cat Linh-Ha Dong Metro Line has been delayed again.

Germany's glaciers are melting at a faster pace than feared and the country could lose its last ice caps in 10 years, an alarming report said Thursday.

The Hà Nội People’s Court on Thursday sentenced ex-minister of industry and trade Vũ Huy Hoàng to 11 years’ imprisonment for “violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness”.

A man in Hanoi and two residents in Hung Yen Province have become the latest locally-transmitted Covid-19 infection cases that are linked to the case in Ha Nam Province.

Vice Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung required raising the warning against COVID-19 resurgence in the city to the highest level at a meeting of the municipal steering committee for COVID-19 control on April 29 afternoon.

After four years of preparations, the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam has granted Geographical Indication (GI) to the Cham Islands bird’s nest products.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) unveiled on April 29 that the consumer price index (CPI) in April slipped by 0.04% compared to the previous month but rose by 1.27% from the figure recorded last December.

Four members in the family of a Covid-19-infected man in the northern province of Ha Nam have tested positive for the virus.

China launched the first module of its "Heavenly Palace" space station on Thursday, a milestone in Beijing's ambitious plan to establish a permanent human presence in space.