Budget carrier Vietjet Air is expected to resume seven domestic routes on October 10, including those connecting Ho Chi Minh City to five other localities in the central and Mekong Delta regions.

Driver's license, social insurance, and COVID-19 vaccination certificate are among many documents to be incorporated into the new chip-based ID cards, the Ministry of Public Security’s police department for administrative management of social order has said.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 6 sent a thank-you letter to his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison for Australia’s donations of COVID-19 vaccine and medical equipment to Vietnam’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Doan Van Viet and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung co-chaired an online meeting with a number of Vietnamese diplomatic representative agencies abroad on strengthening cooperation to promote Vietnamese tourism in major markets.

Tens of thousands of migrants have left HCM City and other southern localities to return to their hometowns over the past few days after social distancing was eased. For many, the journey was long, but they were supported on the way by local police and voluntary groups.

Countries around the world are moving from living in zero COVID-19 to living safely with it and Vietnam is no exception, said Patrick Haveman, Deputy Resident Representative of the UN Development Program in Vietnam.

Thousands of people left HCM City for their hometowns in the last few days after the city lifted its lockdown on October 1, but many migrants have chosen to stay back to resume work or look for new jobs.

Being stranded abroad might be an unexpected experience to any travellers, but 17-month stay in Việt Nam due to COVID-19 pandemic was “worth every day” to Matija Babić.

Sotheby's Hong Kong auction house has announced it will withdraw a lacquered wooden screen which is suspected of being a copy of an artwork by Vietnamese painter, Nguyễn Văn Tỵ (1917-1992), from the upcoming sale on Sunday over concerns of its authenticity.

Countries around the world are moving from living in zero COVID-19 to living safely with it and Vietnam is no exception, said Patrick Haverman, Deputy Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health has announced 4,363 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, along with a further 119 COVID-related deaths. 

The Ministry of Transport has received the proposal to approve a project on expanding Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway which will be partly funded with loans from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The HCM City Department of Transport received 6,937 applications from individuals between October 2 and 4 requesting permission to travel to other provinces to bring relatives back.

The 2021-25 National School Health Programme signed recently by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam focuses on promoting education, care, protection and management of students' health.

The Norwegian embassy hosted a digital press conference on Tuesday to announce the newly-built Munch museum on Oslo’s waterfront. The museum will officially open on October 22.

The 2020 Law on Environmental Protection and the draft decree detailing the Law both provide the producers’ and importers’ liability to recycle and treat their abandoned products and packages, aiming to apply the extended producer responsibility mechanism in Vietnam. This mechanism has been widely and successfully applied in many countries since the 1990s, to recover abandoned products and packages for recycling and most efficient treatment, thus achieving the dual objectives of environmental protection and economic development.

In Việt Nam and across the world, the lack of adherence to medical treatments is a critical public health challenge, participants heard at an exclusive workshop on October 5.