With COVID-19 precluding travel, Vietravel reported a first-half loss of VND80 billion (US$3.4 million), down from a profit of VND30 billion in the year-ago period.

National team’s defender Doan Van Hau finally returned to Vietnam after 11 months on loan at SC Heerenveen in the Netherlands from Hanoi FC.

Those with smartphones would do well to download Bluezone, a Bluetooth-based app that helps determine if a person has come in contact with a COVID-19 patient, the Authority of Information Technology Application at the Ministry of Information and Communica

With drastic, flexible and timely directions of the Government and the Prime Minister, and the strong support from people, Vietnam has obtained important results in performing the dual tasks of fighting COVID-19 and boosting socio-economic development.

Chief of the Office of the Ministry of Public Security and spokesman, Maj. Gen. To An Xo answered questions on issues related to public security under its State management, during the regular Government press conference in Hanoi on August 3.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on August 4 discussed ways to boost bilateral ties as well as cooperation at regional and global forums during their phone talks-the second in the past three months.

VOV.VN - Two more residents of Quang Nam province in central Vietnam have been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, raising the country’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 672, the Ministry of Health reported on August 5 morning.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Heath on August 4 afternoon reported the detection of a further 18 new coronavirus infections, including 17 linked to central Da Nang city a major outbreak spot in Vietnam, and one returning from Equatorial Guinea.

VOV.VN - Recent days have seen an increasing number of Da Nang residents head to healthcare centres in wards around the city to fill out medical declarations and do rapid COVID-19 tests to ensure safety and curb spread of the epidemic in the community.

VOV.VN - An online meeting was held on August 4 between Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai and Rodrigo Yáñez Benitez, Under-Secretary for International Economic Relations at the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs.