VOV.VN - The country’s COVID-19 tally rose to 976,672 cases since the start of the pandemic following the Health Ministry confirmed the detection of 7,988 new infections on November 8, while a total of 1,073 patients were also released from hospitals nationwide.

VOV.VN - Approximately 100 houses in Yen Bai city have been left submerged in floodwater following a spell of heavy rain triggering localised flooding.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese houses in Ho Chi Minh City and the ancient town of Hoi An have recently won the Residential Architecture - Single family category in the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) competition.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City is anticipated to welcome the return of foreign visitors with vaccine passports this December instead of 2022 as planned, according to local authorities.

A webinar reviewing the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s development and integration over the last 40 years was jointly held by the Standing Board of the VBS’s Executive Council, the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Ho Chi Minh City, and the Vietnam Buddhist Research Institute on November 4.

Liquidity on Vietnam’s stock market hit a new record on November 3 with nearly VND52 trillion (more than US$2.2 billion) worth of shares traded on all bourses.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment of central Da Nang city organised a workshop to introduce the “Clean cities, blue ocean” (CCBO) programme on November 2.

Owners of cars with under nine seats entering the inner city area on ordinary days would pay tolls between VND25,000 and VND60,000.

Vietnam's Becamex IDC signed a cooperation programme with The Connected Places Catapult (CPC) of the UK on developing the Binh Duong smart city, the Innovation Region and the Science-Technology Industrial Park in the southern province of Binh Duong during an online ceremony on November 2.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years has sped up the building and development of smart cities, heard Vietnam- ASOCIO Smart City Summit 2021 that opened on November 2.