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  Walking streets around Hoàn Kiếm Lake are often full of people at the weekend. — VNA/VNS Photo  HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội will ban pets from the walking zone surrounding Hoàn Kiếm Lake from May 27. Under the decision issued by the municipal People’s Committee on regulations about the operation of the pedestrian areas, people …

  Police in Bình Định Province help reunited twin sisters while handling documents for citizen identification cards. — Photo dantri.com.vn HÀ NỘI — Twin sisters, separated 47 years ago, have been reunited in the most unusual of ways.  They only found each other again after applying for citizen identification cards. …

  The AstraZeneca vaccine. — VNS Photo HCM CITY — AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and mRNA COVID-19 vaccines provide equivalent protection against hospitalisation and death following two doses, a new expert review of data from 79 studies has found. The data shows that both offer 91.3-92.5 per cent protection against hospitalisation …

  Farmers harvest lotus seeds in Đồng Tháp Province’s Thanh Bình District. — VNA/VNS Photo Nguyễn Văn Trí ĐỒNG THÁP — The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp plans to expand lotus farming, increase the value of lotus products and promote tourism based on visits to lotus fields. …

  A caged fish farm on Thổ Châu Island Commune, Phú Quốc District, in the southern province of Kiên Giang. — VNA/VNS Photo Hồng Đạt HÀ NỘI — Improved legal framework and applications of advanced technologies are considered key to further development of marine aquaculture in Việt Nam. Speaking at …

  Embankments built to create mud flats for growing mangrove forests in Kiên Giang Province’s Hòn Đất District. — VNA/VNS Photo Lê Huy Hải KIÊN GIANG — The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang is soliciting investment in 55 projects meant to cope with climate change and prevent natural disasters …

  Hồ Thị Ngọc Hằng, 6 months, weighs 5kg. Born at a weight of 2.4 kg, Hằng is a child in a Cor ethnic minority family in Quảng Ngãi. Hằng was identified as suffering from severe acute malnutrition during outreach and malnutrition screening supported by UNICEF and the National Institute of Nutrition. — Photo from UNICEF …

  A health worker collects examples for test. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam reported 1,716 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, bringing the national total to 10,704,524, according to the Ministry of Health.  There was one imported case. Hà Nội still topped the list of new transmissions with 381, followed …

  Ph.D Nguyễn Hòa Anh, founder of Spobiotic (probiotic spores) Research Centre at the lab. — VNS Photo Kiều Vân HÀ NỘI — A Spobiotic (probiotic spores) Research Centre, the first of its kind in the country, was opened in Hà Nội on Wednesday. Dr Nguyễn Hòa Anh, founder of the centre, said: “We hope …

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