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  A corner of HCM City’s District 1. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo HÀ NỘI — US citizen and substitute teacher Paul Bodner was sentenced in the US District Court on March 31 in the northern district of California to 11 years in federal prison on three counts of Travel with …

  Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng chaired a meeting of the Politburo on the morning of March 11. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo  HÀ NỘI — Investigations into allegations of corruption must be sped up, especially when the cases draw great public attention. That was the recommendation of the Political Bureau …

  A social housing project with 1,000 apartments is under construction in Thủ Đức City. Photo sggp.org.vn HCM CITY — HCM City’s districts want vacant lands available in industrial parks, export processing zones and high-tech parks to be used for affordable housing for workers. The People’s Committee of Bình Tân said migrants make up …

  Workers at a footwear factory in Hà Tây District, Hà Nội. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo Vũ Sinh HÀ NỘI — The labour market has gradually recovered and achieved a good growth rate, Deputy General Director of the General Statistics Office Nguyễn Trung Tiến announced on Tuesday. He was speaking …

SOUTH SUDAN — Vietnamese peacekeepers of the Level 2 Field Hospital No. 3 in South Sudan delivered medical care to save a 50-year-old officer from a stroke on Monday. It was the third stroke that the neurologist from the field hospital has diagnosed and managed successfully in the past 12 months. It is …

Lê Thị Hồng Hải in the kitchen in her rented room. — Photo dantri.com.vn HẢI PHÒNG — Price surges coupled with post-COVID health concerns have forced many workers in Hải Phòng to tighten their belts, as they desperately wait for rent relief from the government. Lê Thị Hồng Hải works at a …

  Second graders in Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai Primary School. Primary school students in the city returned for in-person classes last week. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo HÀ NỘI — A total of 22,804 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed in Việt Nam on Tuesday, with the capital registering fewer than 2,000 cases …

  The 22,804 new COVID-19 cases are all local infections detected in Hà Nội (1,942), Phú Thọ (1,384), Yên Bái (1,102), Đắk Lắk (1,092), Nghệ An (1,046), Bắc Giang (1,012), Bắc Kạn (999), Lào Cai (988), Vĩnh Phúc (915), Quảng Ninh (905), Tuyên Quang (823), Hồ Chí Minh City (658), …

  The National Wage Council’s meeting on Tuesday announced an increase in the regional minimum wage. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo  HÀ NỘI — The National Wage Council announced on Tuesday that the regional minimum wage will rise by six per cent from July 1, 2022. This increase is equivalent to a …

A doctor from the National Paediatrics Hospital gives consultancy to a mother with son suffering from depression. — Photo hanoimoi.com.vn HÀ NỘI — Experts believe that Việt Nam has enough policies around supporting the mental health of students but in implementation, there are still many obstacles. At a seminar on …