The Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)'s chapter in HCM City on November 18 held a requiem for Vietnamese who died of the COVID-19 in order to show gratitude to the frontline forces in the fight against the pandemic and help ease the pain of the victims’ relatives and families.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is commemorating officials, soldiers and people who have died of COVID-19 on November 19, with a memorial service to be held in Ho Chi Minh City – the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, the largest coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam, is hurriedly developing possible outbreak response scenarios as the number of newly detected cases has increased considerably during the past few days.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health announced an additional 10,223 new COVID-19 infections on November 18 across 60 provinces and cities nationwide, an increase of 370 cases from the previous day.

South Asia’s linkages with East and Southeast Asia in the past and at present come under spotlight at the 4th Asian Consortium of South Asian Studies (ACSAS) conference held via video teleconference on November 18 – 19.

VOV.VN - Visual Capitalist, one of the fastest growing publishers globally which focuses on producing content on energy, technology, and the global economy, has listed Vietnam among the world’s top 10 for largest installed solar power capacity.

The Health Ministry’s Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) launched a campaign on HIV prevention on November 17.

The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) on November 17 held a Vietnam symposium on sustainable development governance in the context of COVID-19 pandemic in both online and in-person formats in Vietnam and several countries.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has so far given over VND28 trillion (US$1.23 billion) from the unemployment insurance fund to nearly 11.78 million COVID-19-affected workers.

The Singaporean Embassy in Hanoi has recently held a ceremony to celebrate the two decades since a memorandum of understanding signed between the Vietnamese and Singaporean foreign ministries to establish the Vietnam – Singapore Training Centre (VSTC).

VOV.VN - Despite the global pandemic, Vietnam remains the sixth leading country of origin for all international higher education students in the US, with 21,631 studying at US institutions of higher education in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan (China) have announced their plans to resume the reception of Vietnamese labourers from November as many foreign labour markets have reopened after the COVID-19 pandemic is basically controlled.

The Embassy of Japan and UNICEF Vietnam on November 17 signed an exchange of notes for a project on “enhancing resilience to disaster risks and climate change for children”, which runs in Vietnam from 2021 – 2026.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has confirmed 9,849 new coronavirus infections in 56 cities and provinces across the country during the past 24 hours, mostly in the south, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in its coronavirus update on November 17.

VOV.VN - Another batch of one million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States arrived in Hanoi on November 17, according to the US Embassy in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) honoured the Voice of Vietnam Radio (VOV) with two prizes for two radio broadcasts at an awards ceremony virtually held on November 17.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Algeria Nguyen Thanh Vinh on November 15 chaired a seminar on Vietnam's sustainable development with the attendance of leaders and trainees of the Algeria University of War.

Overseas Vietnamese in Italy have raised nearly VND300 million (around US$13,200) to finance the repair of schools in remote areas in central Vietnam which were hardly hit by natural disasters last year.

VOV.VN - Teachers and students are preparing to go back to school in many low-risk localities this week following months of closures and online learning due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two Vietnamese firms were named among 35 winners of the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) Awards 2021 at a ceremony held in Bangladesh last week within the framework of the ASOCIO Digital Summit 2021.

VOV.VN - The nation documented an additional 9,650 COVID-19 cases across 59 localities to take the national tally up to 1,048,878, the Ministry of Health said in its November 16 update.

One hundred and twenty candidates aged 6-17 will compete in the 180-minute final round of the first Vietnam Mind Map Championship on December 12.

VOV.VN - The Austrian Government donated a haul of 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses to the country on November 16 in support of its ongoing fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

VOV.VN - The University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in Vietnam co-hosted a webinar on November 16 in order to review the book “Times of Uncertainty - National Policies and International Relations under COVID-19 in Southeast-Asia and Beyond”.

VOV.VN - The capital is set to allow F0 and F1 cases to quarantine at home in an effort to ease pressure placed on concentrated isolation facilities and reduce the risk of cross-infection occurring at concentrated quarantine centres.

Buddhist temples and establishments across the country will ring the bell, light candles, offer incense and pray for those who died from COVID-19 at 8pm on November 19, in coordination with a national requiem for the dead victims of the coronavirus.

Vietnam’s Hoa Sen University has claimed two second prizes at the 2021 MICE Destination Marketing Contest, intended for students majoring in tourism from around the world.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Public Security has officially set up an airborne security unit under the Immigration Department with the primary aim of preventing and combating any terrorist attacks and unlawful interference that may occur in order to ensure aviation security in the nation.

A student team from the University of Technology won first prize in the 2021 ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security on November 13.

A seminar on international cooperation in vocational education was held in Hanoi on November 15 to seek ways to improve training quality.