Only pilots who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are eligible to operate flights, the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) said in a new directive on mandatory measures for flight safety.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has just proposed to increase export tax on gold products of less than 95 percent purity to 2 percent from 0 percent.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked airlines and airports to support the transport of people from Ho Chi Minh City and southern cities and provinces, which are being hit by the worst-ever COVID-19 crisis, to their hometown.

Painter Lê Thánh Thư, a leading artist in the fine arts of the South, died on July 16 in HCM City two days after testing positive for COVID-19.

Ho Chi Minh City is piloting the use of a mobile app developed by military-run telecom group Viettel to continuously monitor close contacts with COVID-19 patients, or F1 cases, who are under home quarantine.

La finale du Concours de piano et de chant en langue vietnamienne pour les enfants et adolescents vietnamiens à travers l'Europe (V-Stella 2023) s'est déroulée le 1er juillet à Londres.

The Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs has called on the Vietnamese community abroad to join hands with the city in controlling COVID-19 pandemic.

By 2030, Vietnam will be ranked among top 30 countries in the world in terms of the business environment, according to the Government Resolution 76/NQ-CP, promulgating the general program on state administrative reform for the 2021-30 period.

Vietnamese dancer MT-Pop, whose real name is Nguyễn Vũ MinhTuấn, will appear during season 4 of Street Dance of China, a Chinese TV reality game show broadcast by Youku, next month.

Vietnamese artists are releasing comedy and romantic web series on YouTube as a way of entertaining audiences and encouraging them to stay at home during social distancing.

Over the past month, Nguyễn Thị Hải, a cook at Tô Hiến Thành Primary School in Hà Tĩnh, has been busy cooking even though the students are on their summer vacation.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang, the country's largest fruit producer, has spent more than VNĐ134 billion (US$5.8 million) to upgrade or build irrigation projects this year, securing irrigation water for nearly 172,000ha of farming areas.

A book that tells the story about Phùng Thiện Nhân, who is dubbed the Vietnamese “steadfast tin soldier” and the charity journey of two Italian doctors, Roberto De Castro and William Amighetti, will be released in Italy on July 22.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the tourism industry and hit industrial production hard, agriculture and community-based agro-forest production have proven resilient in the tourism-intensive central region.

A national online meeting was held on Sunday to find solutions to ensure essential goods for the south when applying social distancing in 19 southern provinces and cities.

The Ministry of Transport has announced an airport development plan that would expand Hà Nội-based Nội Bài International Airport to serve 100 million passengers per year, but has denied a request for a second airport in the capital city until at least 2030.

Việt Nam on Sunday reported highest daily spike of 5,926 COVID cases, putting the total cases in the country at 53,830 cases.

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