VOV.VN - Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long expressed his hope of receiving support in the form of COVID-19 vaccines from Chinese, Indian, and Russian partners during a working session held alongside ambassadors in Hanoi on March 31.

The VinFuture Foundation announced that over 500 prominent scientists, universities, and recognized organizations from 36 countries representing six continents have registered to become the Official Nominators for the VinFuture Prize over one month after the foundation launched its call for nominations.

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on March 30 presented the second-class Labour Order to Australian-based Norfolk Group, one of the first foreign firms landing investment in hi-end restaurants and hotels in Ho Chi Minh City and Con Dao island in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

Three defendants in the central province of Khanh Hoa got sentences on charges of “making, storing, distributing, or disseminating information, documents, and items against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 1, Article 117 of the 2015 Penal Code.

The Canadian Embassy in Vietnam on March 30 inaugurated a Canadian-funded road leading to a charitable house in Cam Phuoc Dong commune in the central province of Khanh Hoa’s Cam Ranh city.

VOV.VN - A further 36 volunteers participating in human trials for Covivac, the second locally-produced COVID-19 vaccine, have been given the first shot, according to Vu Dinh Thiem, director of the Center for Clinical Trials under the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

Many information systems serving as the foundation for e-Government have been put into use recently, and ministries, sectors, and localities are pushing ahead with digital transformation to further improve service quality for the sake of people and businesses.

VOV.VN - The People’s Court of Lam Dong province in the Central Highlands on March 30 sentenced Vu Tien Chi, a local resident, to a 10-year jail term on a charge of making, storing and disseminating documents against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - As of March 28 more than 1,337 cows and buffaloes across 11 districts in Thanh Hoa province have contracted lumpy skin disease (LSD), according to the provincial Department of Livestock And Animal Health on March 30.

Vietnam will upgrade and modernise its national hydro-meteorological network under a master plan for 2021-2030 with a vision towards 2050.

The future looks bright for Da Nang as the central city's new development goals has received approval.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently signed a decision on the establishment of the National Wage Council.

Germany’s Großmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH (GICON®) and the Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI) have identified cooperation sectors and forms, covering technologies, under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on March 29.

VOV.VN - Duong Tan Hau, a Vietnam Airlines flight attendant, came to trial in Ho Chi Minh City on March 30 on a charge of flouting quarantine regulations to spread contangious diseases to others.

Phan Thanh Binh, head of the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Adolescents and President of the Vietnam-Italy Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group, has been presented with Italy’s Order of Merit.

VOV.VN - Vietnam expects to get access to coronavirus vaccine supplies from the United States to support its national COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has said.

Richard Warden, President and CEO of the non-profit humanitarian organisation Operation USA recently asked the US Embassy in Vietnam to deliver a thank-you letter to budget carrier Vietjet Air for its humanitarian effort in the fight against COVID-19.

The My Lai massacre was a terrible war crime in its dimensions but it was not an isolated incident, German historian Bernd Greiner from Hamburg was quoted as saying by the German-based public-broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk.

VOV.VN - A 30-year-old Indian expert was diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus after entering Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on March 28, the Ministry of Health reported on March 29 afternoon.

VOV.VN - The northern province of Hai Duong, the nation’s largest hotspot in the latest COVID-19 outbreak, has decided to lift social distancing measures from midnight on April 1.

Vietnam has set a goal of building and maintaining a national water resource monitoring system and another system to forecast flooding, drought, saltwater intrusion and rising sea water level by 2030.

VOV.VN - As part of their task to search and collect the remains of martyrs, team K72 of the Binh Phuoc provincial Military Command detected a total of 22 sets of remains of fallen soldiers along with their belongings.

VOV.VN - The US Mission to Vietnam and Arizona State University (ASU) seek candidates for the 2021 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Summit: Power of STEAM Education & Workforce Innovation.

VOV.VN - The country recorded no fresh COVID-19 cases on the morning of March 29, leaving the overall number of coronavirus infections unchanged at 2,591, according to the Ministry of Health.

Vietnam saved 353,000 kWh of electricity during one hour from 20:30 to 21:30 on March 27, when the entire country turned off unnecessary electric appliances in response to Earth Hour 2021, according to the National Power Dispatch Centre.

A virtual job fair was held on March 27 with a view to connecting Vietnamese job seekers in Japan with local employers.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health confirmed an imported coronavirus case on March 28 afternoon, bringing the national tally of coronavirus infections to 2,591.

Governor of Russia's Saint Petersburg Alexander Beglov has stressed the common task of helping youngsters build the realiable partnership between Vietnam and Russia, saying that stronger trust among Vietnamese and Russian youngsters will ensure the development of friendship between the two countries.

VOV.VN - The northern province of Hai Duong, the epicenter of the country’s recent coronavirus outbreak, has decided to dissolve its field hospital No2 after the outbreak was brought under control.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed four more four coronavirus cases, including two Filipino experts, raising the national count to 2,590.