VOV.VN - Vietnam reported the discovery of six further imported COVID-19 cases over the past 12 hours to 6:00 pm on April 26, bringing the nation’s infection tally to 2,852, according to the Ministry of Health.

The first rice packages to help Vietnamese-Cambodian families living in areas under lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, arrived in Preah Sihanouk city of the province of the same name on April 25.

If breakthroughs in institutional reforms are achieved to improve growth quality, coupling with timely and sound fiscal and monetary policies, the Vietnamese economy could expand 6.76% a year during 2021-2023, according to Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) Tran Thi Hong Minh.

Phu Quoc island of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has been named among 15 best islands in the world to retire on in 2021 by www.travelawaits.com.

The Government of Japan will provide Vietnam with more than US$2.8 million to finance a project on “Mitigating COVID-19 Impacts on Vulnerable Populations” launched in Hanoi on April 26.

VOV.VN - FDI attraction must be more selective with a specific focus on the main evaluation criteria such as quality, efficiency, technology and environmental protection, said Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh at the Connections for Development Forum 2021 in Hanoi on April 26.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is hopeful it can produce its first local COVID-19 vaccine this year, with the third trial phase of trials for the NanoCovax vaccine set to be completed in late September while the COVIVAC vaccine will enter the second phase by the end of June, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has expressed his confidence that an official visit to Vietnam by Chinese State Councillor and Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Wei Fenghe will make positive contributions to the relations between both nations.

VOV.VN - Border forces operating in the southwestern region have joined with local people as they put in every effort to prevent illegal entry into the country as a means of curbing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, amid neighbouring countries seeing an increase in the number of positive COVID-19 cases.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s participation in the ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 23 - 24, his first overseas trip as the Government leader of Vietnam, has reflected the country’s great endeavour to contribute to the bloc’s common efforts in resolving many emerging issues.