VOV.VN - Various agencies, businesses, and other benefactors on May 27 donated more than VND12.5 billion to the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF), Hanoi chapter, to help bolster COVID-19 prevention and control efforts.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee handed over VND54.5 billion (US$2.36 million) in donations to the Ministry of National Defence (MoD) on May 24 to assist COVID-19 prevention and control efforts.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Do Van Chien on May 17 sent a letter of congratulations to Buddhist community in and outside the country on the occasion of the Buddha’s 2565th birthday.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society's Central Committee on May 8 launched the Humanitarian Month 2021 on the occasion of the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (May 8).

The standing board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee asked localities to hold election campaigns in accordance with requirements of COVID-19 prevention and control.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in Ho Chi Minh City on April 12 received over VND34 billion (US$1.47 million) from businesses, local residents and overseas Vietnamese to buy COVID-19 vaccines.

A meeting was held at the headquarters of the Communist Review in Hanoi on March 30 to collect local voters’ opinions about Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong, who is nominated to represent the capital in the 15th National Assembly (NA).

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City must purchase a further five million doses of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine as it needs a total of 18 million doses, with the expected allocation by the Ministry of Health set to not be enough, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health.

The pilot organisation of urban administration in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang and the special mechanisms and policies for the development of Da Nang were discussed at a meeting of standing Government members in Hanoi on March 1.

Self-nominated candidates will have opportunities to secure a seat in the National Assembly - the country’s most powerful agency - in the upcoming election slated for May 23, said Hau A Lenh, Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee.