HCM City is deploying the fifth period of COVID-19 vaccination for local people, in which priority is given to people over 65 years old, people with great contribution to the nation and the poor.

Vietnam needs to integrate drowning prevention and climate change management programmes, Dang Hoa Nam, director of the Child Affairs Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has said.

The HCM City Department of Health plans to buy ambulances and call on private hospitals and companies to hand over theirs so that emergency aid teams can transport patients amid the relentlessly rising incidence of COVID-19.

The UK will donate 415,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Việt Nam, as the country begins to ship their surplus supply to countries across the world, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced.

The Hà Nội-based 108 Military Central Hospital has announced that for the first time, its doctors successfully applied stem cell transplantation to treat a patient with myasthenia gravis - a rare long-term condition that causes muscle weakness.

This article highlights new provisions of the 2015 Penal Code and the 2019 Law on Execution of Criminal Judgments[1] regarding the two judicial remedies of compulsory medical treatment and education at reformatories applied to juvenile offenders in Vietnam.

Vietnamese expatriates and businesses in Australia and France’s New Caledonia have donated more than 41,035 AUD (30,288 USD) to aid their home country in combating COVID-19.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Quang Hieu on July 29 thanked overseas Vietnamese for their support for the COVID-19 combat at home.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has delivered an appeal to Vietnamese people at home and overseas to step up COVID-19 prevention and control amid the complicated developments of the pandemic.

The Health Ministry on Thursday announced a further 233 deaths related to COVID-19. The pandemic has no claimed 863 lives in Việt Nam.

People with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups sponsored by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) on July 29 got COVID-19 vaccine shots.

Đà Nẵng on Thursday started administering Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for 16,800 people, mostly high-risks people in locked down areas or essential service workers, in the phase of allocation between July 29 and August 5.

Une conférence de mi-année de la Fédération des associations de transitaires et assimilés de l'ASEAN s'est tenue le 15 juillet à Da Nang, pour discuter des mesures visant à créer des conditions favorables à la logistique transfrontalière.

Le Consulat général du Vietnam à Luang Prabang et l’Association des entreprises vietnamiennes dans le Nord du Laos ont offert vendredi 14 juillet des cadeaux aux professeurs et aux étudiants de la section de langue vietnamienne de l’Université Souphanouvong.

If you are COVID-19 positive and stay at home or are caring for loved ones who have COVID-19, here is what you need to know to be well-prepared in the fight against the virus. This advice was provided by Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Trường Sơn, head of the ministry’s steering board for COVID-19 prevention and control.

Finnish educators are looking forward to welcoming more and more high school Vietnamese students to study in their country.

During 2022-25, businesses operating in the fields of agriculture, power supply, waste treatment, or industrial production, using forestry land or being involved in activities requiring change of forestry land use purpose and generating 3,000 tons or more of carbon dioxide per year would have to develop greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory systems and formulate plans to mitigate GHG emissions.

HCM CITY— HCM City is considering extending its current social distancing period for one to two weeks as part of an effort to curb the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, Phan Văn Mãi, deputy secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, said at a press meeting on July 28.