Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son attended the 11th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting via a videoconference on August 4, as part of the 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and related meetings.

Lê Thị Nhung, 29, drove a car for 32 hours covering a distance of 1,200km to take poor patients back to their homes.

Polish painter Marta Kisiliczyk is an award-winning artist that wants her audience "to just stand in front of my art and feel something”.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau plans to expand its area under banana to 6,000ha and annual output to 120,000 tonnes by 2025.

Việt Nam needs to solve persistent gender issues in ethnic minority communities that are affecting women and girls, according to reports conducted by a group of international organisations and local authorities. 

Hà Nội is always a locality that face a high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam said on Wednesday, urging the city to keep vigilant and prepared so that it could made active effective steps in responding to the disease.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue chaired a meeting in Hanoi on August 4 with medical staff from centrally-run hospitals supporting southern cities and provinces in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.

A total of 7,623 new COVID-19 infections were reported in Việt Nam on Wednesday, increasing the caseload since the beginning of the pandemic to 177,813, the Ministry of Health says.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam inspected COVID-19 prevention and control work in Hanoi on August 4.

Vietnamese celebrities are actively joining volunteer teams in quarantine zones to boost the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic which is spreading across the city.

Health minister Nguyễn Thanh Long asked Mission Director for USAID Việt Nam Ann Marie Yastishock to speed up the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer to Việt Nam in a meeting late Tuesday.

HCM City plans to provide vaccinations to 70 percent of residents aged 18 and over in the sixth vaccination phase, the vice chairman of the city’s People Committee, Dương Anh Đức, said at a press conference on August 3.

Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang hosted a reception for Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Bezdetko Gennady Stepanovich in Hanoi on August 4.

Vietnam made outstanding achievements in gender equality in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2015 to 2019, including a drop of 4.7 percent in the rate of child marriage in ethnic minority groups, according to a report released on August 4.

Fully vaccinated arrivals to Vietnam with negative COVID-19 tests will only have to undergo seven days of centralized quarantine and another seven days for medical observation, according to a new instruction from the health ministry.

Young people and students from art schools around the country participated recently in online filmmaking courses and workshops launched by private organisations in HCM City.  

 International internet traffic and speed in Việt Nam have been back to normal after repairing work on the Asia America Gateway (AAG) undersea cable was completed.

Relevant forces in the central province of Quảng Bình have safely removed an unexploded bomb left from the war from a densely populated area in Lý Trạch commune, Bố Trạch district.