The 108 Central Military Hospital is among five hospitals to receive the Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award and Innovation Award 2021 for excellently performing hand hygiene at a ceremony in Singapore on July 28.

Vietnam hopes 100% of new buses will use electricity or green energy from 2025, which is part of the transport sector’s action plan on green energy transition to reduce carbon and methane emissions.

Located in Hà Giang Province, Hoàng Su Phì District has a total area of 3,700 hectares of rice terraces. Aside from being a natural wonder, the fields are a reflection of the hard work and inventiveness of local ethnic groups.

Mechanisms and policies will be further improved to develop a safe, transparent, efficient and sustainable capital market for stabilizing macro-economy and mobilizing resources for socio-economic development.

What do you do with a bunch of items you no longer need after decluttering your house? When Phạm Thùy Chi found herself in the same situation, she took to an online recycling community to make sure that nothing goes to waste.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has just approved the programme "Youth Startup Support 2022 - 2030" to assist young entrepreneurs.

The complicated development of monkeypox may affect the restoration of international flights, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

The Government has approved a number of special mechanisms and policies to implement three key national expressway projects, with a total investment of VNĐ84.4 trillion (US$3.6 billion).

Vietnamese are the fourth tallest people in Southeast Asia, only after Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, thanks to improvements in maternal and child nutrition, heard a workshop held by the Ministry of Health in Hà Nội.

Impacts of climate change on the enjoyment of rights of vulnerable groups were discussed at a workshop jointly held by the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Hanoi on July 29.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on July 27 to launch activities responding to World Day against Trafficking in Persons, spreading a message that preventing and fighting human trafficking is the responsibility of the whole political system and society, and that human trafficking is a global issue that needs international cooperation to deal with.

Top scholars from Columbia University today presented prospects for the burgeoning field of Vietnamese Studies at a conference in Hà Nội titled "Understand the Past - Transform the Future."

The US-funded Summer Conference 2022 opened in Hanoi on July 29 with the participation of more than 200 experts.

Đặng Thị Ánh Hồng, a 13-year-old student in the southern province of Đồng Tháp, and Nguyễn Ngọc Xuân Thảo, 28, in Bến Tre southern province won first prize of the Art Contest "Protect the Ozone Layer and the Climate"

It is likely that monkeypox will eventually appear in Việt Nam since the country is open for travel and trade, and so it needs to have plans to deal with it and limit community spread, US agency Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said.

Vietnam has welcomed 954,600 foreign visitors so far this year, 10 times higher than the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

COVID-19 latest figures

More than 100 overseas Vietnamese (OV) youths on July 28 offered incense and flowers at the Vietnamese Heroic Mothers’ Monument in Tam Ky city, the central province of Quang Nam.

The maximum loan provided by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to economic organizations lawfully established and operating in difficulty-hit areas would be lifted to VND 1 billion (USD 42,800) from the current VND 500 million (USD 21,400).

So far, more than 138,300 labourers in Ho Chi Minh City have received housing rent support under the Prime Minister’s decision, according to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.