VIETNAM TODAY

Police in the northern city of Haiphong have prosecuted a local man for smuggling four adopted sons to Cambodia.

A total of 285.4 trillion VND (12.18 billion USD) sourced from the State budget was disbursed in the first eight months of 2022, equal to 51% of the yearly plan and up 16.9% year-on-year.

A rash of clinics in HCM City have been suspended for 18 months after it was discovered they were operating without licenses and lacked advertising permissions.

The Border Guard Command of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on August 30 announced that they had received eight people of Myanmar nationality who were rescued while drifting at sea by the Panamanian-flagged ship Trump SW.

Vietnamese shrimp exports to the United States and China in July fell by 54% and 17%, respectively, against the same period last year, according to data given by the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

The HCM City Department of Health has required all hospitals, medical centres and facilities to step up action to prevent a possible COVID-19 outbreak as the city has recorded a recent surge in cases, including severe cases requiring hospitalisation.

Vietnam confirmed an additional 3,241 new Covid-19 infections and four deaths on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 30 signed a decision to commute the death penalty to life imprisonment for 10 prisoners, including two foreigners, on the occasion of the upcoming 77th National Day (September 2, 1945 – 2022).

The number of newly-established enterprises and those resuming operations in the first eight months of this year surpassed 149,450, up 31 per cent year-on-year and marking the highest level for the period.

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria has helped to support the recovery from the COVID-19 impact on global health services, according to an event held in Hanoi.

Bangladesh is putting final touches to deals to import hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rice from Vietnam and India in order to address the food price crisis in the country, reported Reuters.

Several airlines in Vietnam, including Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines and VASCO, have stopped baggage tag checks at the exits of domestic arrival terminals to ease congestion.

Vietnam has enjoyed a trade surplus of 3.96 billion USD in the first eight months of 2022, the General Statistics Office announced on August 29.

The Ministry of Education and Training held a ceremony to hand over certificates to Vietnamese teachers abroad who attended a training course on Vietnamese language teaching in 2022.

Vietnam topped the list of five Asia-Pacific economies with the most spam emails detected with a total of 3.09 million emails, global cybersecurity company Kaspersky revealed.

Vietnam’s economic recovery will be stronger in the second half of 2022, particularly as the country resumed its tourism activities after a two-year closure, according to Standard Chartered’s latest Vietnam report.

The painting "Vietnamese Lady" by Le Pho has been sold for S$781,200 at the Modern & Contemporary Art auction of Sotheby's Hong Kong recently held in Singapore for the first time.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to witness a rainy snap this week, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

PM Pham Minh Chinh has hailed President of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference Alok Kumar Sharma for his contributions to stepping up the delivery of COP26 commitments.