Korean coach Park Hang-seo has extended his contract with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) for another year, from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023.

The Ministry of Health has asked localities to review and instruct all schools to build flexible and safe COVID-19 prevention and control plans to allow children to go back to class.

Transport experts are still sceptical about how effective a plan to collect toll fees from cars entering Hanoi’s downtown areas will be at reducing traffic congestion and pollution in the city.

Authorities in Hanoi have ordered the establishment of 508 mobile medical units, including 20 units to serve industrial parks and processing zones, after a sharp rise in cases in the capital city. 

Instead of foremen, shops now can be controlled by monitoring cameras and face recognition technology. This allows factories to maintain stable operations in all situations.

A series of famtrips have been organized by travel firms in cooperation with local authorities as a part of a plan to ‘break the ice’ in the tourism market.

VietinBank has launched FX Online 24/7 service, which allowsits customer to execute foreign exchange services anytime – anywhere on transaction platforms called VietinBank eFAST and VietinBank Ipay.

Voice AI is quickly becoming a standard in today's call centers. EM&Ai is one of the most reliable conversational AI solution providers in Vietnam, which currently dominates in Voice AI technology in the country.

A requiem next Thursday (November 18) in HCM City will be held in remembrance of people who died of COVID during the fourth pandemic wave that has claimed more than 16,800 people in the city.

A number of violations by medical staff have been found recently, and many medical doctors, who have the respect of society because they save peoples’ lives, have been handcuffed.

Several Vietnamese movies have consecutively participated in international film festivals in the last two months of this year.

After the fourth Covid-19 pandemic, more than 1.3 million workers have returned to work in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Ministry of Finance has advised the Government to launch a demand stimulus package through an interest-rate subsidy, worth VND20 trillion a year and VND40 trillion for two years.

Old stories and characters from Vietnamese fairy tales are themes of new TV series from television stations and film agencies in the South. 

After more than four months of slowing down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the property market in the south is regaining strength and there are optimistic signs of a recovery thanks to demand still exceeding supply.

Residents do not need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test result when they enter other localities, according to the Ministry of Health’s latest guidelines.

E-commerce platforms have launched sale promotion programs for Single’s Day November 11, the biggest shopping event of the year, promising big sales on millions of items.

Digital transformation is one of the most urgent needs for the diplomatic sector.

The Vietnamese e-commerce platform Tiki has received investment capital of US$258 million. It plans to invest in insurance business and conduct an IPO in the US.

Some National Assembly deputies have suggested that the National Assembly and Government should set April 27 as a memorial day for those who have died of Covid-19.

Vietnam has reached agreements for 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses and has received about 125 million doses.

Vietnamese director Huynh Tuan Anh won the “Best Director of the Year” award at the Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) for his movie “Phuong Khau” (The Emperor’s Gift) last weekend.

Vietnam’s digital economy this year is expected to grow by 31% to US$21 billion - bolstered by a 53% year on year growth in e-commerce despite the shrinking online travel market - and hit US$57 billion by 2025.

The Australia-UNICEF partnership on vaccine delivery assistance in Vietnam has delivered 1,910 vaccine refrigerators, 5,000,000 syringes and 50,000 safety boxes to Vietnam.

Nikkei: Vietnam leads recovery in Southeast Asia supply chains