Vietnamese airlines and destinations were named among the winners at the award ceremony of the World Travel Awards 2022 - Region: Asia & Oceania, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City on September 7 evening.

Don’t get me wrong – I love riding a motorbike in Việt Nam. I’ve been lucky enough to ride a motorcycle all over the world, and Việt Nam tops them all. 

The 4-day national holiday between September 1 and 4 witnessed burstling travelling atmosphere throughout the country, which was a sign of full recovery of tourism sector in the country.

The south-eastern province of Bình Phước will invest VNĐ10.4 trillion (US$445 million) to improve its irrigation system and exploit water resources in 2021 – 30.

The death toll of 32 makes the An Phú the deadliest karaoke fire in Việt Nam to date, followed by the conflagration of a bar in Cầu Giấy District of Hà Nội in 2016 that killed 13 people.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 7 extended his deepest condolences to families of victims in a karaoke parlor fire in the southern province of Binh Duong.

The scientific and educational organisation “Meeting Vietnam” presented 126 Vallet scholarships worth 1.9 billion VND (80,750 USD) in total to outstanding students in the central province of Nghe An on September 7.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on September 7 received more than 400 tonnes of necessities worth over 18 billion VND (763,068 USD) for local orphans and disadvantaged families on the occasion of 2022 Mid-Autumn festival.

The Hanoi Department of Health has ordered the city’s centre for disease control to provide training for local health centres and vaccination establishments to step up updating COVID-19 vaccination data for local residents.

Contractors have been asked to accelerate work on the Le Van Luong - Belt Road No. 3 tunnel in Hanoi with a view to inaugurating this facility on October 10.

The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) and the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam (UNDP) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation on September 7.

More than 55 trillion VND (2.33 billion USD) has been disbursed so far to financially support people and enterprises hurt by the COVID-19 as part of the national socio-economic recovery and development programme, according to a report by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The labour market in the northern province of Hung Yen has gradually recovered thanks to a safe and flexible adaptation strategy to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic, and increase COVID-19 vaccine coverage for people aged 18 and over.

The US CDC has been supporting Việt Nam in the global health security programme, field epidemiology training programme, and the establishment and operation of the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) at the Ministry of Health and at four regional institutes.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho will spend 58 billion VND (2.5 million USD) from now until 2025 to develop intensive farming of orchards and create brand names for fruits.

Japan will strengthen the inspection of labour unions to ensure rights of Vietnamese guest workers, according to Japanese Minister of Justice Hanashi Yasuhiro.

The ministry preferred the option in which State employees have seven days off for the Tết New Year celebration, starting on Friday, January 20, 2023, and ending Thursday, January 26, 2023.

In June this year, Việt Nam announced that it had successfully developed a vaccine to administer to pigs to fight African swine fever, with the aim of becoming the first country to commercially produce and export it.

Cases have been mainly found in districts of Đống Đa, Thường Tín, Thanh Trì, Thanh Oai, Phú Xuyên, Hoàng Mai and Ba Đình.