VIETNAM TODAY

The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has agreed with the Health Ministry’s proposal of bringing the COVID-19 from a Class A infectious disease, deemed as “especially dangerous”, to Class B "dangerous".

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has banned a woman from travelling by air for 12 months for using fake papers to travel.

The death toll in Nepal from weekend floods and landslides rose to six, officials said Monday, as rescuers continue to search for 28 missing people.

Vietnam Railway Corporation has proposed two railway routes connecting Cao Xa Station in the northern province of Hai Duong to China.

A young woman in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau is in desperate need of financial support to cover medical treatment for serious injuries caused by a traffic accident over a year ago.

HCM City has worked out scenarios to respond to hand, foot and mouth disease amid the increasing number of patients.

The State Bank of Vietnam is cutting down a series of key interest rates by 0.25%-0.5% from June 19, which is expected to make a double impact on the economy thanks to stronger credit activities and higher liquidity.

Many rivers in the Mekong Delta region have been struck by erosion, sweeping dozens of houses away.

President Yoon Suk-yeol of the Republic of Korea will play an official visit to Vietnam from June 22-24 at the invitation of Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in its press communique.

The EU's ban on deforestation-linked imports are causing concern among Vietnamese producers as the requirements to trace commodities back to their origin can push up costs and entail finding alternative suppliers.

The demand for coffee seedlings has been on the rise in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak amid higher coffee prices.

More than 1,500 people joined in a mass yoga performance in the central coastal city of Danang on Sunday evening.

Fish farmers in Van Phong Bay, the largest in the central province of Khanh Hoa Province, are appealing for help after they claimed that gangsters were intimidating them into selling lobsters for cheap.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh issued an order to simultaneously start the construction of three important national transport projects at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on June 18.

Two people were killed and 28 are missing in major flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rains in eastern Nepal, authorities said Sunday.

Around one tonne of seedless lychees have been shipped to the UK and Japan.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed a cooperation agreement with Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training on a project to develop a water supply system that is resilient to contaminated water sources.

Vietnam took the lead at the first Abu Reikhan Beruniy International Chemistry Olympiad after all of its eight students won medals, including four golds and four silvers, announced the Ministry of Education and Training and the Vietnam Chemistry Association.