Wearing face masks compulsory in public places: PM
Wearing face masks compulsory in public places: PM

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued an urgent telegram, asking localities and people to strictly abide by COVID-19 rules, including wearing face masks in public places, amid rising coronavirus threats from neighbouring countries.

Wearing face masks compulsory in public places: PM
Over 1,700 to be evacuated as unexploded wartime bomb found
Over 1,700 to be evacuated as unexploded wartime bomb found

VOV.VN - Local authorities of Vinh Phuc province, close to Hanoi capital, have developed a plan to evacuate approximately 1,700 people of a residential area after an unexploded wartime bomb was found.

Over 1,700 to be evacuated as unexploded wartime bomb found
COVID-19: An Indian case confirmed on Apr. 24 morning
COVID-19: An Indian case confirmed on Apr. 24 morning

VOV.VN - An Indian citizen coming to Vietnam on business has been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, said the Ministry of Health in its 06.00hrs update on April 24.

COVID-19: An Indian case confirmed on Apr. 24 morning
Saudi Arabia supports flood victims in central Vietnam
Saudi Arabia supports flood victims in central Vietnam

VOV.VN - Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Vietnam Saud F. M. Al-Suwelim, on behalf of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, on April 23 presented the token of US$150,000 in humanitarian aid to help Vietnam’s central provinces affected by recent storms and floods.

Saudi Arabia supports flood victims in central Vietnam
Job market shows strong signs of recovery
Job market shows strong signs of recovery

Vietnam’s job market showed strong signs of recovery in the first quarter of 2021, opening up various opportunities for workers, especially highly-skilled workers.

Job market shows strong signs of recovery
Workshop looks into opportunities, challenges in digital transformation
Workshop looks into opportunities, challenges in digital transformation

A workshop was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 23 to discuss opportunities and challenges facing firms amid digital transformation.

Workshop looks into opportunities, challenges in digital transformation
COVID-19: Two foreigners among six imported cases detected in Vietnam
COVID-19: Two foreigners among six imported cases detected in Vietnam

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed six more imported coronavirus cases, including two foreign citizens, in Khanh Hoa, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Ba Ria – Vung Tau and An Giang on April 23 afternoon.

COVID-19: Two foreigners among six imported cases detected in Vietnam
Deputy PM requests tighter control along border against illegal entries
Deputy PM requests tighter control along border against illegal entries

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on April 23 asked border provinces to closely monitor and prevent any illegal entries in an effort to nip in a bud a possible fresh coronavirus outbreak in the community.

Deputy PM requests tighter control along border against illegal entries
A hospital worker re-tests positive for COVID-19 in Hai Phong
A hospital worker re-tests positive for COVID-19 in Hai Phong

VOV.VN - An orderly of Transport Hospital in Hai Phong port city has tested positive again for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a representative of the Hai Phong Department of Health told local media outlets on April 23.

A hospital worker re-tests positive for COVID-19 in Hai Phong
Anti-State instigator sentenced to 8 years in prison
Anti-State instigator sentenced to 8 years in prison

VOV.VN - A Facebooker of Phu Yen province, central Vietnam, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on a charge of making, stockpiling, distributing and disseminating documents against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Anti-State instigator sentenced to 8 years in prison
Southern border on full alert amid threat of new COVID-19 outbreaks
Southern border on full alert amid threat of new COVID-19 outbreaks

VOV.VN - Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long has warned the south-western border area remains at a high risk of a fresh novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as an increasing number of Vietnamese nationals is seeking to return to the homeland from COVID-19-ravaged Cambodia and Thailand.

Southern border on full alert amid threat of new COVID-19 outbreaks
Action month spotlights children protection amid pandemic, disasters
Action month spotlights children protection amid pandemic, disasters

June is the nationwide action month for children this year under the theme of joining hands for ensuring children’s rights and protecting children in natural disasters and pandemic, said the Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs’ Department of Child Affairs.

Action month spotlights children protection amid pandemic, disasters
Vietnam builds worst scenario as its neighbors' cities on lockdown
Vietnam builds worst scenario as its neighbors' cities on lockdown

Vietnam is building the worst scenario for COVID-19 as its neighboring countries of Cambodia and Laos are struggling with surging infections, including putting their capital cities on lockdown.

Vietnam builds worst scenario as its neighbors' cities on lockdown
Facebooker imprisoned for anti-Party, anti-State propaganda
Facebooker imprisoned for anti-Party, anti-State propaganda

The People’s Court of Binh Thuy district in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on April 22 sentenced a woman to two years in prison for “abusing the rights to freedom and democracy to violate the interests of the State, the rights and legitimate interests of organisations and individuals.”

Facebooker imprisoned for anti-Party, anti-State propaganda
COVID-19: Two foreigners among eight detected infections over 12 hours
COVID-19: Two foreigners among eight detected infections over 12 hours

VOV.VN - Eight people, including two foreign citizens, have been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 disease in Vietnam during the past 12 hours, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said on April 23 morning.

COVID-19: Two foreigners among eight detected infections over 12 hours
ENV campaign helps protect wildlife in central localities
ENV campaign helps protect wildlife in central localities

Fruitful results have been made in a campaign to minimise violations of wildlife protection regulations launched by Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) in the three central localities, Thua Thien-Hue, Da Nang, and Quang Nam, in the 2019-2020 period, according to the ENV.

ENV campaign helps protect wildlife in central localities
Airlines entitled to refuse passengers without health declarations
Airlines entitled to refuse passengers without health declarations

Airlines are now entitled to deny passengers without e-health declarations and those who fail to follow health regulations, Director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) Dinh Viet Thang has said.

Airlines entitled to refuse passengers without health declarations
Writer with disability enters Forbes Vietnam’s inspirational women list
Writer with disability enters Forbes Vietnam’s inspirational women list

Nguyen Thi Kim Hoa, a writer with a paralysed right arm, has been named in the list of 20 inspirational women in 2021 by the Forbes Vietnam magazine.

Writer with disability enters Forbes Vietnam’s inspirational women list
COVID-19: Four new imported cases bring national count to 2,816
COVID-19: Four new imported cases bring national count to 2,816

VOV.VN - Vietnam confirmed the detection of four new imported novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, thereby raising the national infection tally up to 2,816, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health.

COVID-19: Four new imported cases bring national count to 2,816
Vietnam provides 800 ventilators to Cambodia in COVID-19 fight
Vietnam provides 800 ventilators to Cambodia in COVID-19 fight

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Government has donated a total of 800 ventilators, two million medical masks, 300,000 N95 masks, along with other medical equipment to Cambodia in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the neighbouring country.

Vietnam provides 800 ventilators to Cambodia in COVID-19 fight
President Phuc presents Labour Hero title to outstanding scientists
President Phuc presents Labour Hero title to outstanding scientists

VOV.VN - State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc handed over the “Labour Hero in the Renewal Period” title on April 22 to the family of late Professor and Academic Vu Tuyen Hoang, former Secretary of the Party and President of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA).

President Phuc presents Labour Hero title to outstanding scientists
Cambodia thanks Vietnam for assistance in COVID-19 fight
Cambodia thanks Vietnam for assistance in COVID-19 fight

VOV.VN - The Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed its appreciation to the Vietnamese Government on April 21 for providing a sum of US$300,000 in humanitarian aid to assist the neighbouring country in its ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Cambodia thanks Vietnam for assistance in COVID-19 fight
Trial of ex-minister of industry and trade, accomplices reopens
Trial of ex-minister of industry and trade, accomplices reopens

The People’s Court of Hanoi on April 22 resumed a trial for ex-minister of industry and trade Vu Huy Hoang who involves in the cases of “violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness,” and “violating regulations on land management” that occurred in the Ministry of Industry and Trade and HCM City

Trial of ex-minister of industry and trade, accomplices reopens
Vietnam to welcome sight of Lyrid meteor shower
Vietnam to welcome sight of Lyrid meteor shower

VOV.VN - Local skygazers will have the unique opportunity to witness the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower, the dusty trail of a comet which as a centuries-long orbit around the sun, with the event set to take place sometime between the evening of April 22 and the morning of April 23.

Vietnam to welcome sight of Lyrid meteor shower
Four Vietnamese universities named in THE Impact Rankings
Four Vietnamese universities named in THE Impact Rankings

VOV.VN - A total of four local universities have been named in the Impact Rankings 2021 as produced by the Times Higher Education (THE).

Four Vietnamese universities named in THE Impact Rankings
VPI, PVOIL partner in research on electric-vehicle battery, charging station
VPI, PVOIL partner in research on electric-vehicle battery, charging station

The Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) and the PetroVietnam Oil Corporation (PVOIL) have agreed to collaborate in the research on electric vehicle (EV)’s battery and charging station.

VPI, PVOIL partner in research on electric-vehicle battery, charging station
Australia, UNICEF donate AUD13.5 million to support COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnam
Australia, UNICEF donate AUD13.5 million to support COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnam

The Australian Embassy in Vietnam and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) have announced a landmark AUD13.5 million package to help support the successful introduction and delivery of COVID-19 vaccine doses in Vietnam.

Australia, UNICEF donate AUD13.5 million to support COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnam
COVID-19: Two Indian experts, four Vietnamese returnees confirmed
COVID-19: Two Indian experts, four Vietnamese returnees confirmed

VOV.VN - Vietnam registered six further new COVID-19 cases, including two Indian experts and four Vietnamese returnees from Japan, boosting the national infection count to 2,812, the Ministry of Health reported on April 22 morning.

COVID-19: Two Indian experts, four Vietnamese returnees confirmed
HCM City airport opens more check-in counters, security scanners
HCM City airport opens more check-in counters, security scanners

Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City is adding more staff, opening early check-in counters, and using all available security scanners to reduce increasing congestion at the site.

HCM City airport opens more check-in counters, security scanners
COVID-19: Five imported cases detected in Khanh Hoa, Da Nang
COVID-19: Five imported cases detected in Khanh Hoa, Da Nang

VOV.VN - Five Vietnamese citizens returning from overseas have been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 disease, the Ministry of Health (MoH) reported on April 21 afternoon.

COVID-19: Five imported cases detected in Khanh Hoa, Da Nang