A further 5,343 new domestic cases of COVID-19 were reported in Việt Nam on Wednesday, as well as 14 imported cases quarantined upon arrival.

A woman in Hanoi has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for the charge of “taking advantage of the rights to freedom and democracy to infringe upon State interests, legitimate rights and interests of organisations and individuals” in accordance with Article 331 of the 2015 Penal Code.

In the complicated developments of COVID-19 pandemic that has spread in most provinces and cities across the country, preventing the pandemic from entering the city through transportation services is one of top priorities in Hà Nội.

Cần Thơ City and several provinces in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta reported sharp increases in new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday (July 20).

The National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Wednesday afternoon announced 36 new deaths in HCM City, Đồng Tháp and Long An provinces.

VPBank will spend VNĐ150 billion (US$6.5 million) to buy 715 modern ventilators in emergency support for HCM City and southern provinces in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.

Việt Nam has manufactured the first test batch of COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik, according to an announcement by Russia’s sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Vietnamese pharmaceutical company VABIOTECH released on Wednesday.

为开展《全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（CPTPP）框架内知识产权相关内容，越南科学技术部和财政部跨部门工作组被邀请赴加拿大于11月27日至12月2日接受业务培训。

The Prime Minister has issued a decision to establish a special working group for the Government to carry out COVID-19 prevention and control tasks. The working group will be located in HCM City.

Primary schools in outlying districts in HCM City are struggling to arrange enough classrooms for first graders to study a full day in the upcoming academic year due to population growth in city districts.

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Besides modern medical techniques and equipment, traditional medicines are used to assist COVID-19 treatment in Việt Nam.

Tech giant VNG has launched the "Sai Gon Bao Dung” project in which a digital platform will help connect charity organisations, sponsors and disadvantaged people amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Multimedia composer Lương Huệ Trinh is currently working in Ghana. Last Saturday she held an online concert with Vietnamese, French and German artists. The concert was streamed live on the page of Goethe Institute in Hà Nội.  Thể Thao Văn Hóa (Culture & Sports) daily's reporter Lam Anh chats with her about the role of female musicians in experimental music. 

The old village is more than 1,000 years old located in Vạn Phúc Ward, Hà Đông District, more than 10km from the centre of Hà Nội. It is still as beautiful as it is, but it was so quiet even on the weekend.

Greek Ambassador Georgios Stilianopoulos writes to Việt Nam News on the occasion of Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo.

HCM City’s 1,465m Thủ Thiêm 2 Bridge over the Sài Gòn River between District 1 and the newly created Thủ Đức City is expected to open to traffic in the second quarter of next year.