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Local people at a flower market wrap up as temperatures drop in Hà Nội on Monday. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo Hoàng Hiếu HÀ NỘI — A cold spell combined with a strong north-east monsoon is forecast to cause temperatures in the northern region to drop sharply, with frost in mountainous areas between Friday …

HCM CITY – Coca-Cola, through its partnership with the Vietnam Red Cross Society, is providing VNĐ5 million scholarship grants to around 100 secondary and high school students from pandemic-hit households in the province of Bình Phước and HCM City. An additional 100 families will receive livelihood assistance. On top of the …

  A man in An Giang Province receives the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo HÀ NỘI — A total of 15,743 new cases were reported in Việt Nam on Tuesday, bringing the nationwide tally to 2,171,527. Of the new transmissions, 44 were imported and quarantined upon arrival, and the …

  Vaccines donated by the UK and European countries via COVAX arrived in Hà Nội. — Photo courtesy of UNICEF HÀ NỘI — At the turn of the year 2021/2022, Việt Nam received 6.2 million additional COVID-19 vaccine doses from the UK and European partners via the COVAX Facility. They …

   The new infections include 44 imported and 15,699 domestically-transmitted cases which were found in Hà Nội (2,956), Đà Nẵng (989), Hải Phòng (704), Thanh Hóa (685), Hưng Yên (623), Bắc Ninh (560), Bắc Giang (445), Quảng Ngãi (400), Hải Dương (397), Hòa Bình (386), Vĩnh Phúc (385), Bình Định …

Markets in HCM City have come alive as people rush to get their holiday shopping done. It’s a positive sign for small businesses after months of closure due to COVID-19. How are you preparing for Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday? VnExpress News

  Đức Giang Hospital, the first State hospital to offer post COVID consultation in Hà Nội, opens their programme on Monday. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo HÀ NỘI — The Đức Giang General Hospital in Hà Nội plans to inaugurate a clinic for post-COVID-19 checkups and treatment, according to its director Nguyễn Văn Thường.  …

  A photo by Nguyễn Đoàn Kết showing a landfill in Việt Nam won a photo contest held by UNDP in 2021. Photo courtesy of UNDP HÀ NỘI — A campaign aiming to tackle plastic waste in Việt Nam was launched on Monday in Hà Nội. The campaign, organised by UNDP in cooperation …

  Park Seong-ho (wearing black) is handed over to the South Korean police. — Photo congan.com.vn HCM CITY — A South Korean teenager wanted by Interpol for the production and distribution of child pornography videos has been arrested by Vietnamese police. Park Seong-ho, 16, is alleged to have used Facebook to befriend and force underaged Korean …

  The vaccine donation was made through the international vaccine platform COVAX. — Photo courtesy of the German Embassy HÀ NỘI — Germany has donated an additional 4,000,230 doses of BioNTech/Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to Việt Nam. The shipments of the vaccine arrived in Hà Nội in late December 2021 and early January …