VIETNAM TODAY

Australia has delivered a further 4.2 million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses to Vietnam through an agreement with UNICEF and in partnership with Vietnam’s Ministry of Health.

The Asian Development Bank mobilized a $135 million financing package for VinFast Trading and Production Joint Stock Company to manufacture Vietnam’s first fully-electric public transport bus fleet and first national electric vehicle charging network.

As many as 171 Vietnamese citizens have just returned to Tay Ninh Border Gate after being rescued from several casinos and gambling firms in Cambodia.

Many houses have been badly destroyed due to erosion at a beach in the central city of Hoi An.

President of the Cambodian Senate Samdech Say Chhum and a Cambodian high-ranking delegation have arrived in Hanoi to start a three-day official visit to Vietnam from October 24-26 at the invitation of National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

The number of passengers through Vietnamese airports reached 7.1 million in October, down 11.6% month-on-month, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

Global cybersecurity and digital privacy company Kaspersky has launched Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence in Vietnam to help security analysts detect potential attack threats promptly and adjust their defence plans.

The number of new Covid-19 cases continued to drop in Vietnam with 158 cases recorded on Sunday, the lowest daily infections reported since May 2021, according to the Ministry of Health.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong on October 23 offered congratulations to Xi Jinping on his re-election as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

Vietnam will play defending champions United States in their opening Group E match after the draw of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup held in Auckland, New Zealand, on October 22.

Lawyers for a group of women subjected to intrusive searches at Doha Airport two years ago called Sunday for Qatar to guarantee female fans travelling to next month's football World Cup will be safe.

Many people in the northern central province of Ha Tinh’s Duc Tho District are flocking to hunt sandworms.

A class at the National Institute of Hematology & Blood Transfusion every Saturday cheer up children suffering from leukaemia.

The average hotel room rate in HCM City in the third quarter saw a considerable increase thanks to the local tourism sector’s recovery.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela and the National Experimental University of the Armed Forces of Venezuela (UNEFA) held a ceremony marking Vietnam Women’s Day and an exhibition of Vietnam’s traditional long dresses on October 20.

The Vietnam Federation on Disability in partnership with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam held a seminar on October 22 discussing orientations for a training programme for disabled candidates to join people-elected bodies.

The Department of Overseas Labour (DOLAB) under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on October 21 offered recommendations to ensure Vietnamese guest workers work legally, safely and effectively in foreign countries.

Ninety percent of children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in Vietnam remain untreated, said Rana Flowers, UNICEF Representative to Vietnam, who called for policies and laws to enable it.