On Saturday, authorised agencies salvage boats sunk during heavy rains in Nhơn Lý Commune, Quy Nhơn City.— VNA/VnExpress News Photo Phạm Kha HÀ NỘI — Central provinces have quickly remedied the consequences of unseasonal torrential rains, which have been hitting the central provinces from Quảng Bình to Khánh Hòa over the last four …
Read More »Tây Ninh supports rural occupation development
Super thin rice paper is made at the Tân Nhiên Co. Ltd in Tây Ninh Province’s Hoà Thành Town. This kind of rice paper has been recognised as a four-star OCOP product. – VNA/VnExpress News Photo Thanh Tân TÂY NINH – The southeastern province of Tây Ninh will spend …
Read More »Pasteur Institute seeks 3,000 volunteers for COVID vaccine nasal spray trial
COVID-19 nasal spray vaccine project staff at Nha Trang Pasteur Institute sorted volunteers’ document files for the trial. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo HÀ NỘI — Nha Trang Pasteur Institute in the south-central province of Khánh Hoà said it is recruiting 3,000 vaccinated adult volunteers for the Phase 3 clinical trial of a …
Read More »‘Refrigerator Mother’ theory affects public awareness of autism
Children with autism play a game at a medical centre in HCM City. —VNA/VnExpress News Photo HÀ NỘI — A lack of awareness has left many parents of children with autism blaming themselves for their children’s developmental disabilities, hindering efforts to help children better integrate into society. The “Refrigerator Mother” theory, also known as Bettelheim’s theory …
Read More »Việt Nam’s equipment, goods to be transported to UNISFA in first military engineering deployment
Vietnamese military engineering unit inspects the equipment and vehicles to be deployed with them to UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). — VNA/VnExpress News Photo Trọng Đức HÀ NỘI — Nearly 2,000 tonnes of equipment and materiel of Việt Nam’s first military engineering unit participating in the United Nations peacekeeping operations at the …
Read More »Two dead, two missing after unseasonal downpours lash central provinces
Heavy rain and big waves have battered the the central province of Bình Định over the last few days. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo HÀ NỘI — Unseasonal downpours have been lashing the central provinces for the last two days, causing two deaths and two more to go missing at …
Read More »Lecturer’s invention helps clean river banks
Huỳnh Ngọc Thái Anh, pictured with his award presented by UNESCO. — Photo VNA/VnExpress News CẦN THƠ — Huỳnh Ngọc Thái Anh’s invention, the recyclable trash collector, has won first prize in UNESCO’s “Innovative Ideas for a Plastic-Free Ocean” competition. “About two years ago, I had the opportunity to participate in …
Read More »72,555 new COVID-19 patients on Friday
Checking a customer’s body temperature before entering a supermarket in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo Hoàng Hùng HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội continued to see a decreasing number of new daily COVID-19 infections on Friday. However, the capital city still had the most new cases in Việt Nam …
Read More »Việt Nam to join regional operation against drug, wildlife trafficking next month
HCM City customs and police cooperated in the busting of a trafficking case of 500kg of ketamine in 2019. — Photo from HCM City Customs HÀ NỘI — The General Department of Việt Nam Customs will participate in Operation Mekong Dragon IV, a joint regional operation against drug and …
Read More »COVAX Director lauds Việt Nam’s COVID vaccination progress on 1st anniversary of vaccine delivery
A delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to Việt Nam from the COVAX Facility. — Photo courtesy of UNICEF Việt Nam GENEVA — Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to Việt Nam, via the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX Facility. On April 1, 2021, the first …
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