Thousands of poor and disadvantaged students will be provided with learning tools and scholarships as part of an education support programme launched on October 5.

Vietnam’s capital city Hanoi has presented 20,000 USD to Luang Prabang province of Laos to help with the Lao northern province’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The made in Vietnam” NanoDragon satellite is scheduled to be launched into orbit on October 7.

Việt Nam COVID-19 caseload continues to decline with 4,363 new cases registered on Tuesday, down by 1,022 compared to the previous day. 

Oxfam in Vietnam, in collaboration with the Embassy of New Zealand and the Embassy of Switzerland, announced on Tuesday a humanitarian aid project of nearly VNĐ1.3 billion (US$56,000) to assist vulnerable migrant workers most affected by COVID-19 in Hồ Chí Minh City.

A delegation from the European Commission (EC) will convene an online meeting with the Directorate of Fisheries on October 27 to review Vietnam’s efforts against illegal, unreported and undocumented fishing (IUU), said the directorate's Deputy General Director Nguyen Quang Hung.

As of Tuesday noon, 10 out of 20 localities have responded to the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV)’s proposed plan to resume domestic flights, as COVID-19 outbreaks eased but remain difficult to predict.

Police in the southern province of Dong Nai on October 5 joined hands with other localities to bring over 20,000 pandemic-hit migrant workers home in line with their aspirations.

Poor students and children of frontliners in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic are receiving learning aids under a programme launched on October 5.

The Cham Brahman ethnic people in the south central province of Binh Thuan are celebrating their yearly Kate Festival from October 4-6.

Việt Nam is set to master the production technology of 10 vaccines used for humans and be capable of producing at least three by 2025, according to a national sci-tech programme on human vaccine production research by 2030, recently approved by Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam.

A number of localities have agreed with the Transport Ministry’s draft plan on resuming domestic flights following the relaxation of social distancing measures.

Oxfam in Vietnam, a non-governmental organisation, together with the Embassies of New Zealand and Switzerland in Vietnam, on October 5 announced a humanitarian aid of nearly 1.3 billion VND (57,000 USD) to help migrant workers in Ho Chi Minh City surmount difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bến Thành Market in District 1 and many other traditional markets have reopened, with everyone working in the shops inside being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with two shots.

A 40-year-old woman in the northern province of Vinh Phuc was arrested by local police on October 4 for allegedly “abusing rights to freedom and democracy to infringe upon the interests of the State and the legitimate rights and interests of organisations and citizens” under Article 331 of the 2015 Penal Code.

The Ministry of Health has ordered relevant agencies to help the Việt Nam-Germany Friendship Hospital in transferring patients and relatives from the scene of Hà Nội's latest COVID-19 cluster.

Ministry of Health (MoH) has sent an official dispatch to the government of cities and provinces on strengthening the inspection of the import and trading of COVID-19 test kits in order to detect and strictly handle violations in pandemic prevention. 

Residents in Ho Chi Minh City are advised to stay vigilant in pandemic prevention and control when enterprises and business and production facilities began resuming operations from October 1 after a long suspension due to COVID-19.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said that the fourth plenum of the Party Central Committee would focus on measures and policies on Party building, driving out moral degradation, corruption, and other deviations from Party ideology.