Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh on Thursday praised the results of the National Target Programme for New Rural Development and the National Target Programme for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the 2021-25 period.

Director-General of the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Nguyen The Manh asked the World Bank (WB) to help the agency further improve the quality and effectiveness of its social and health insurance services during his meeting with WB Country Director for Vietnam Carolyn Turk in Hanoi on April 21.

At least 80 percent of communes nationwide are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas by 2025, according to the national target programe on new-style rural area building.

A total of 12,029 new COVID-19 cases was recorded in Việt Nam on Thursday.

The strength of the army - people ties in the 1975 Ho Chi Minh Campaign and the pandemic combat is the focus of an exhibition opened at the Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum in Ho Chi Minh City on April 21.

A serious fire has killed five people in a family living in a house on Phạm Ngọc Thạch Street in Hà Nội earlier this morning.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam recently held a joint conference to evaluate the 10 years of implementation of social welfare policies in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Public Security on April 20 issued a decision to conduct investigations into a case accused of manipulating the stock market at Tri Viet Securities Corp, Louis Holdings Group, Louis Capital JSC and relevant agencies, and detained four people.

An Ocean Festival with various activities will take place from April 30 to May 3 at Bảo Sơn Paradise Theme Park, Hoài Đức District, 12km from the city centre.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on April 20 chaired a meeting to discuss the employment situation and measures to deal with the labour shortage.

Taste of Australia, the annual celebration of Australia’s food and beverages in Việt Nam, began on Wednesday (April 20) in HCM City.

The National Assembly Standing Committee and the Presidium of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee held an annual joint conference on April 20 to review their coordination in 2021 and identify focuses for this year.

An exhibition featuring over 30 lacquer painting by 11 artists is open in downtown Hà Nội.

Australian expert Timothy Edward McGrath passed away on April 18 after a short serious illness, which left a big gap both professionally and personally for GIZ staff members, his partners, his family, and friends.

The vaccination of children aged between five and 11 years old have been carried out safely at many localities over the past few days and no incidents have been recorded so far.

Lê Viết Thuận, a disabled person with congenital cerebral palsy, is trying his best to help others in the same situation, spreading goodwill wherever he goes.

Supermarkets and shopping centres providing single-use plastic bags to customers will be fined from 2026. 

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has assigned the Ministry of Finance to provide more than 484 tonnes of rice to the northern province of Ha Giang during the between-crop period of 2022.

A Russian national has been charged with “illegally storing drugs” under Article 249 of the 2015 Penal Code (revised in 2017), Binh Thuan province's People’s Procuracy said on April 20.