Pop and folk singer Cẩm Ly of HCM City is back with a new music project which will begin airing on her YouTube channel on July 19.

Almost VNĐ337 trillion (US$14.6 billion) has been loaned to more than 12 million households nationwide under the social policy credit programme over the past five years, helping improve local lives and reduce poverty, according to the Việt Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP).

Localities and all links in the tourism value chain need to join hands to boost domestic tourism, which is now a priority for the struggling industry’s recovery post-pandemic, tourism experts have said.

For many years, Ngô Thành Toại, 66, who has Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and dyslipidemia, regularly visited doctors once a month at Gò Vấp District Hospital in HCM City.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked ministries and agencies to soon build the national multi-dimensional poverty standards for the 2021-2025 period to submit to the Prime Minister for approval.

Local authorities in the northern province of Son La have kicked off a new tourism project in the capital town of Moc Chau aiming to promote local tourism potential and enhance the community's role in offering tourism services to improve income among locals, especially women.

Eight male Russian experts entering Việt Nam on July 7 were confirmed as positive to SARS-CoV-2 on Wednesday evening, raising the country’s COVID-19 infections to 381. 

Over the last five years, more than 2.1 million households have sustainably escaped from poverty thanks to social policy credit, which is said to be an important pillar of the national target programme for sustainable poverty reduction.

Nearly 188ha of land will be cleared by mid-August as the highway's speed limit is set to be raised from 100km per hour to 120. 

Over VNĐ10 trillion from the State budget has been earmarked for carrying out the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction this year.

Around 100 doctors and nurses at City Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital 1 and 2, Chợ Rẫy Hospital and others in HCM City on Wednesday (July 15) took part in a successful operation to separate conjoined twins.   

The regional event will be organised by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as part of celebrations to mark the country’s 2020 ASEAN Chairmanship. 

The death of Glee actress Naya Rivera in a California lake last week was ruled an accidental drowning by medical examiners on Tuesday.

Employees of Hollywood star Johnny Depp during his rocky marriage to ex-wife Amber Heard defended the actor in a UK court on Tuesday on day six of his libel lawsuit trial.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Algeria Nguyen Thanh Vinh had a working session on July 14 with Abdelmajid Chikhi, advisor to the Algerian President and Director General of the National Archives Centre, to discuss how to intensify cooperation in archiving information between the two countries.

Pop star Đàm Vĩnh Hưng has released his MV (music video) capturing images of Đà Lạt City, the resort city of flowers in Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Lâm Đồng.

Ethnic Tày artist Hoàng A Sáng recently launched his latest book An Trú Trong Yêu Thương (Living in Love), his autobiography.

Organised by Hỏa Lò prison monuments management board and Côn Đảo National Monument Conservation Centre, the Words of Gratitude exhibition aims to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day that falls on July 27.