The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has recorgnized two traditional festivals of Hanoi as national intangible cultural heritages - “Moc villages festival” and “The sisterhood celebration ceremony between Phu My and Kieu Mai villages”.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is set to officially launch a COVID-19 vaccine fund on Saturday in Hanoi.

After the Covid-19 vaccine fund was established, Vietnamese businesses contributed hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong. Many companies said they are willing to vaccinate their employees and customers with their own sources.

1,700 volunteers register for Nano Covax vaccine trials, third stage

Healthcare staff have been working day and night to provide screening tests in high-risk areas in HCM City to detect cases in the community amid the latest COVID-19 outbreak.

The Ministry of Finance said that it has submitted to relevant agencies the financial plan to buy vaccines for mass vaccinations as proposed by the Ministry of Health.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Mission to the United Nations, chaired a six-month periodical meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC)’s Informal Working Group on International Tribunals in New York on June 2.

Vietnam will face five-time Futsal World Cup winners Brazil in this year's tournament in Lithuania.

A Singaporean football legend has said Vietnam are no longer the underdogs of Southeast Asia.

 Stock market hits historic peaks

The number of newly established enterprises is still increasing, but the rate of businesses withdrawing from the market has also risen.

All businesses, organizations and provinces are allowed to negotiate with suppliers of legal vaccine sources, but they must contact qualified agencies.

The Ministry of Culture and the Art Foundation of Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt State have introduced an upcoming exhibition featuring the main female character in the Tale of Kieu by the Vietnamese 18th-century great poet Nguyen Du.

Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen Phan Van Giang on June 2 hosted separately receptions for Ambassador of the Philippines to Vietnam Meynardo Los Banos Montealegre, and Singaporean Ambassador to Vietnam Jaya Ratnam.

Based in the US, Petkix is a company that manufactures technological devices for pets.

Ngo Van Minh, a teacher at Archimedes Academy, a secndary school in Hanoi, has raised VND230 million from selling maize and running an online class to buy medical equipment for use in Bac Giang, the current Covid epicenter.

Russia has agreed to provide Vietnam with 20 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V this year, Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said on June 2.

According to a survey by Statista, about 61.3 million smartphones are in use in Vietnam. The country is among the top 10 countries with the highest number of smartphones.

Localities have prepared various scenarios to hold 10th-grade entrance exams for students amid the COVID-19 outbreak, with some planning to hold the exams on schedule and others set to postpone them.

The Ministry of Finance has proposed extending the reduction periods of several fees beyond the current expiration date of June 30.

Nguyen Thi Nga, deputy head of the Department of Child Affairs under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, talks about online child protection.

The biggest headache for state agencies compiling talent training plans is that the recipients, after finishing courses overseas, do not return to Vietnam to serve at state agencies as they had previously promised.

Young MC Mina Pham, who can speak four languages, is about to publish her book title ‘Bi mat hoc ngoai ngu cua to’ (My secret to learning foreign languages). 

The local authorities of many cities and provinces, including Hanoi, Bac Ninh and Quang Ninh, have instructed people to apply technological solutions to fight the Covid-19 pandemic as recommended by MIC.

Today, June 1, is the last day that South Korean conglomerate LG produces smartphones in Vietnam before it focuses on making home appliances only.