The Vietnamese football team will make efforts to obtain a positive result in their September 7 match against Australia in the final round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers, Coach Park Hang-seo has said.

The People’s Committee of Hanoi has set a target to raise the rate of women holding key positions in state management agencies and local governments to 60 percent by 2025 and 75 percent by 2030.

Ho Chi Minh City has seen positive results after seven days since authorities tightened social distancing and COVID-19 control measures, according to the municipal Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

An escalation in COVID-19 cases and deaths in July-August will undermine Vietnam’s previously strong recovery from the pandemic shock and may temporarily set back the positive rating momentum, said Fitch Ratings.

VOV.VN - Experts have been examining the source of COVID-19 infection at the centrally-run psychiatric hospital in Dong Nai’s Bien Hoa city after 62 patients there were infected with the virus.

VOV.VN - An additional 3,657 positive COVID-19 infections, including 22 imported cases, were recorded on the evening of July 30, thereby raising the daily infection count to 8,649, according to information released by the Ministry of Health.

VOV.VN - Lawmakers approved resolutions on the election of Vice State President, Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court and Prosecutor General of the Supreme People’s Procuracy during the first session of the 15th legislature in Hanoi on July 26.

The 15th National Assembly will elect several important positions of the legislature on July 21 morning, the second day of its first session.

VOV.VN - The Party Central Committee on July 7 examined a Political Bureau proposal to nominate some additional personnel in the State apparatus for voting at the upcoming first session of the newly-elected National Assembly.

VOV.VN - As many as 247 Vietnamese people have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 10 cities and provinces nationwide during the past six hours, with Ho Chi Minh City alone recording 196 cases.