A total 75,250,990 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Vietnam so far, according to the national COVID-19 Vaccine Portal on Tuesday.

Salary increases at multinational companies this year are expected to be marginally down from 2020 and rise slightly next year.

During the peak of the pandemic, Vietnamese products such as Luc Ngan and Thanh Ha lychee and Binh Thuan dragon fruit were still shipped abroad. Some kinds of goods were event sold to the pickiest markets at high prices for the first time.

HCM City has given 12 million vaccination shots so far since the first shot in March. This has allowed the city to control the outbreak and reduce the mortality rate.

Five Vietnamese scientific journals were accepted to the ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) database system in 2021, announced the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) on October 26.

The upgrade of Terminal T2 of Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi will need more than 4.98 trillion VND ($218.5 million) so as to raise its annual capacity from 10 million to 15 million passengers, according to the Airports Corporation of Vietnam.

Amateur and professional voiceover artists around the country are invited to a dubbing contest called Thanh Âm Kỳ Diệu (Magical Voices), which is being held in HCM City.

The AAG submarine cable route has encountered problems on the S1I branch from Vietnam to Hong Kong, affecting the quality of Internet services in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the errors on the AAE-1 submarine cable have not been fixed yet.

The second software park in the central city of Da Nang is under construction at a cost of VND800 billion (over US$34 million), according to the local Department of Information and Communications.

There are 23 provinces and cities across the country allowing students back to school, according to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), following closure due to COVID-19 control measures. 

Vietnamese publishing houses have recently introduced limited editions of Vietnamese books to honour the country’s leading authors and their works, as well as satisfy readers’ interest in book collecting.

Local buildings Bat Trang House and Vanada restaurant in the northern province of Ninh Binh beat more than 4,700 entries from 87 countries worldwide to win the Dezeen Awards 2021.

HCM City is now at Level 2 of pandemic risk, but its response scenario is at Level 3. The healthcare department believes that city residents are underestimating pandemic risks.

The Ministry of Transport is also working with the Ministry of Information and Communications on the tracking of passengers’ travel history via app PC-COVID.

The long lockdown in HCM City has caused karaoke parlours to hover between life and death. While struggling to survive, they have thought of a new service – renting karaoke equipment out to clients.

Vietnam is seriously lacking IT engineers, which explains why many new graduates with good skills and experience find jobs with attractive pay of up to VND30 million ($1,300) a month.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman Klaus Schwab will co-chair the national strategic dialogue between Vietnam and WEF on Friday.

The Pfizer vaccine (Comirnaty) will be used to inoculate children aged 12 to 17 nationwide, starting in November, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long announced in Hanoi on October 26.

The Ministry of Finance (MOF)has advanced $9.83 million from the accumulation fund for debt repayment to pay due debts for the Ministry of Transport (MOT) as the investor of Cat Linh – Ha Dong project.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh proposed two key tasks that ASEAN should focus on doing in the time to come during the ongoing 38th ASEAN Summit on October 26.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan on October 26 met with Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev and held talks with Vice President Iliana Iotova as part of her official visit to the European country from October 25-27.

The General Department of Taxation has opened a series of electronic invoice deployment centres, located at its headquarters and the taxation departments in six localities.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his UK counterpart Boris Johnson agreed that Vietnam and the UK will recognise each other's “vaccine passports” early during their online talks on October 26.

The latest Resolution 406/NQ-UBTVQH15, issued by the National Assembly on October 19, is regarded as a correct and timely policy, and was well received by enterprises.

National Assembly (NA) deputies have proposed halting screening or removing licence for cinematic works whose artists violate political security ethics or language.