Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivered an important speech at a national teleconference on June 12 reviewing the five-year implementation of the 12-tenure Politburo's Directive 05-CT-TW on enhancing the studying and following of President Ho Chi Minh's thought, morality and lifestyle.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered authorities of Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding localities in the southern key economic region to take the initiative to realise the dual targets in a flexible method as COVID-19 situations remain complicated.

VOV.VN - Nha Rong Harbor and the Ho Chi Minh Museum are exhibiting items associated with President Ho Chi Minh’s life and career.

The PathetLao newspaper of the Lao news agency KPL on June 24 frontpaged an article on the great friendship, special solidarity, and comprehensive cooperation between Laos and Vietnam.

Vietnamese and Chinese Party officials, scholars and experts gathered at an online symposium on June 25 to discuss the relationship of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Communist Party of China in the past, present and future.

VOV.VN - Over 400,000 residents in Ho Chi Minh City have been inoculated against COVID-19 over the past five days as part of the southern city’s ongoing vaccination campaign.

Two Vietnamese universities – Vietnam National University (VNU), Hanoi and VNU Ho Chi Minh City - have entered the Times Higher Education (THE)’s Young University Rankings 2021, which lists the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger.

Ho Chi Minh City will go ahead with national high school graduation exams for more than 88,000 students on July 7-8 based on the Ministry of Education and Training’s schedule despite growing COVID-19 outbreaks, according to its Department of Education and Training.

VOV.VN - A total of 285 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), including 279 local cases and 6 imported infections, were recorded June 24, with Ho Chi Minh City registering the highest number of infections at 162 for the whole day.

VOV.VN - Airport, railway, and bus stations in Ho Chi Minh City have been left largely deserted in recent days due to local authorities imposing social distancing measures throughout the southern city as part of efforts to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.