The Government recently issued Decree No 152/2020/ND-CP featuring regulations on foreigners working in Vietnam and the recruitment and management of Vietnamese working for foreign organisations and individuals in the country.

VOV.VN - Sejong Korean Language Foundation have announced the establishment of two Korean language centres in the northeast province of Thai Nguyen and Can Tho, the biggest city of the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.

VOV.VN - With Tet fast approaching, gardeners in Tu Lien kumquat village in Tay Ho district of Hanoi are busily preparing kumquat trees ahead of the start of the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet.

VOV.VN - The northern region is forecast to endure a period of significant cold weather, with temperatures plunging to as low as 12 degrees Celsius from the evening of January 6.

VOV.VN - The nation has set a target to see women hold 60% of key positions in state management agencies by 2025, with this figure anticipated to rise to 75% by 2030 in line with a programme recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

A French man, who has been stuck in Vietnam due to COVID-19, is working as a vendor in HCM City to earn a living.

A website on the 2019 Labour Code, at http://boluatlaodong2019.molisa.gov.vn, was officially launched on January 4.

National digital transformation will not only be conducted at State and Government agencies but go far beyond, especially at enterprises, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong told a Government press conference on January 4.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has welcomed the new rights of workers and employers in Vietnam from January 1 as the revised Labour Code adopted in 2019 takes effect.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) announced three imported cases of the coronavirus on January 4, raising the total number of infections in the country to 1,497.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has just submitted a report to the Prime Minister, proposing that Vietnam stop operating and restrict licensing flights to Vietnam from countries and territories with the new variant of the SARS-CoV- 2 virus.

VOV.VN - The first patient diagnosed with a coronavirus variant in Vietnam is in stable health condition with no signs of coughing or shortness of breath, according to Dr. Nguyen Van Lo, director of Tra Vinh province’s Center for Disease Control.

VOV.VN - With Phu Quoc district poised to become the country’s first island city from March 1 following its recognition as a new city in Kien Giang province, let’s discover the city before it becomes an important national landmark.

VOV.VN - The Immigration Management Agency of the Republic of Korea (RoK) has announced plans to offer a 50-day automatic stay extension period for foreign migrant workers in accordance with the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme, reported the Department of Overseas Labour.

VOV.VN - The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Radio should take the initiative during the implementation of Industry 4.0 technology in order to develop into a leading national multimedia and multi-language agency, according to Nguyen The Ky, president of VOV.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has reached a deal with the United Kingdom’s AstraZeneca to purchase 30 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for local use, said Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong.

VOV.VN -The Ministry of Health has granted permission to the Nha Trang-based Institute of Vaccines and Biological Medical (IVAC) to carry out human clinical tests for Covivac, a locally-produced novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, on volunteers in January, two months ahead of schedule.

Vietnam will enter the “elderly population structure” in 2026, which will last for 28 years until 2054, according to an in-depth study of the 2019 population and housing census.

VOV.VN -The Ministry of Health on January 3 reported the discovery of a further 12 imported COVID-19 cases, all Vietnamese, taking the overall number of infections in the country to 1,494.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s overall number of COVID-19 infection rose to 1,482 after a further eight new imported cases were confirmed, the Ministry of Health said on January 2.

VOV.VN - The nation has reported its first imported case of a new variant of the novel coronavirus VOC 202012/01, which originated in the UK, according to the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City.

A New Year 2021 flag-salute ceremony was held on January 1 in Hoa Tam commune, Dong Hoa town in the southern central province of Phu Yen - the easternmost point of Vietnam, where the sunrise is first seen on the mainland of the country.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on January 1 confirmed an additional nine cases of COVID-19 imported into Vietnam, pushing the national infection tally to 1,474.

VOV.VN - An online music project developed by the Vietnamese community based in Malaysia officially launched the song “Hello Vietnam” as its first product, with the track expressing hope that bright a 2021 lies ahead in the New Year.

VOV.VN - The nation registered as many as 5,168 cyber-attacks on its information systems during 2020, representing an annual decline of 0.15%, according to data released by the Ministry of Information and Communications’ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

HCM City held a ceremony on December 31 to announce the National Assembly Standing Committee’s resolution on organising administrative units at the district and commune levels and establishing Thu Duc city.

VOV.VN - Close to 360 Vietnamese citizens in the US, including minors under 18, the elderly, sick people, and students who have completed their courses and have difficulty in accommodation, and other specially difficult cases were flown home safely on a flight operated by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on December 31 and January 1.

The Ministry of Health has launched a grassroots health information management app, a social network, and an individual health record platform as part of its Ehealth Vietnam Summit 2020 held recently in Hanoi.

Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat has laid stress on the Party and Government’s policy of building Hoa Lac hi-tech park into a smart ecosystem for science-technology development, contributing to the national socio-economic development.

Doan Le Hoang Tan, 33, deputy director of the Centre for Innovative Materials and Architectures under the Vietnam National University-HCM City, was recently honoured as one of the 10 outstanding young scientists, making him one of the 2020 Golden Globe Award winners.