Three Vietnamese universities have been listed in the Times Higher Education (THE)’s Asia University Rankings 2021.

Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Phan Van Giang talked via videoconference with his Japanese counterpart Kishi Nobuo on June 3, agreeing to further intensify cooperation in military medicine to combat COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks.

The Health Ministry issued Decision 2763/QD-BYT on June 3 approving the use of the Chinese-made vaccine against COVID-19 Vero Cell to meet urgent needs in the fight against the pandemic.

Vietnam has completed negotiations with at least four pharmaceutical companies to buy more than 120 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine this year, the Ministry of Health has announced.

80 further domestic COVID-19 cases added to national count at midday

Vietnam striving to enhance transparency in wood sector

The intense heat in northern Vietnam in the past few days has made the job of Vietnamese health workers in hospitals and quarantine sites more difficult.

Following the total lunar eclipse on May 26, other rare astronomical phenomena will occur in June.

A Vietnamese company - Vabiotech - will become part of the production process of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine beginning this month.

A short drive from downtown HCM City is ABM Shop, an interior decor workshop located in Binh Thanh District. This young company has managed to expand thanks to its unusual products -- interior decorative items made from motorbike and car scrap.

Large movie theater chains in Vietnam, such as CGV, Lotte, Galaxy and BHD, have requested the prime minister for urgent help to cope with difficulties triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Entering the second year of the pandemic, teachers and students across Vietnam are prepared to switch to online learning if necessary.

Facing two weeks in quarantine is a tough task at the best of times.

A woman in Bac Giang province, Vietnam's largest Covid-19 hotspot, refused to leave her home when medical workers came and asked her to to a concentrated quarantine area. 

Artist Bui Tien Tuan has debuted his nude paintings on silk which experts say are rare in Vietnamese fine arts.

The country’s consumer price index (CPI) in the first five months of the year grew 1.29% year-on-year, the lowest for the period since 2016, according to the General Statistics Office.

There were positive developments of industrial parks in Vietnam in the first five months of the year, but experts still say the country should do more to attract big investors.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs a Cabinet meeting to discuss socio-economic performance and COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control work in the first five months this year.

For the first time, Vietnamese scientists have successfully developed a technological process used for sequencing the SARS-CoV-2 virus genome through PacBio long-read genome sequencing technologies.

Salt farmers in Thanh Hoa Province are speeding up their work under the hot weather.

Sethe Nguyen, a native of HCM City, has been named as one of the winners of the Illustrators of the Future contest for science fiction art in the US.

The People’s Court of northern Hung Yen Province on June 2 sentenced a man to five years and three months in jail for storing 780 kg of pangolin scales - a type of banned goods

Despite the hot weather of 40 degrees Celsius, people are still working hard on salt fields in Hoa Loc commune, Hau Loc district, in the central province of Thanh Hoa. In return, however, the yield and quality of salt will be higher.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on June 3 handed over a decision appointing Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong, Deputy Minister of National Defence, as Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army.

The US-sponsored John Midgett coast guard ship, a Hamilton-class cutter, has departed from Seattle (Washington) and is expected to arrive in Vietnam in the coming days.