(LSO) - On February 20, 65 last citizens quarantined at Regiment 123 in Lang Son province for 14 days returned home with stable health. To date, all 404 citizens quarantined at the regiment has been certified by the provincial steering committee for preventing and combating the acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as completing the medical...

Hanoi (VNA) – Twenty certificates of merit of the Prime Minister have been awarded to collectives and individuals who significantly contributed to the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), heard a meeting of the Central Council for Emulation and Rewards in Hanoi on February 20. PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the meeting...

Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnamese Government is recommended to cut two ministries and one deputy prime minister, according to a proposal to comprehensively restructure the Government for the first time in 15 years. The headquarters of the Ministry of Finance in Hanoi (Photo: baodautu.vn) The Institute for State Organisational Sciences of the Ministry of Home Affairs announced the...

LSO – To join hands in the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), at Tan Thanh border gate on February 19, the People’s Committee of Van Lang district in Lang Son province presented 6,000 medical face masks to Pingxiang county in China’s Guangxi province. Leader of Van Lang district’s People’s Committee (L) gives...

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasised the importance of digitalisation in broadcasting when meeting with radio “The Voice of Vietnam” (VOV) leading officials on February 19. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (third from left) presents a souvenir to VOV General Director (Photo: VNA) Phuc said that although Vietnam has made strides in communications in recent...

Hanoi (VNA) – Further efforts should be exerted in the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) so as to well control the epidemic for socio-economic stabilisation and development, concluded a meeting of the national steering committee on the fight held in Hanoi on February 19. At the meeting (Photo: VNA) During the...

Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Senior officials from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies will discuss measures to cope with the acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in their upcoming meetings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Illustrative image (Photo: malaysiakini.com) They will also talk about the impact of this disease on the regional economy, according to...

Hanoi (VNA) – Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam Park Noh-wan on February 18 expressed their wish to further enhance their countries’ cooperation in vocational education. Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung (R) meets with RoK Ambassador Park Noh-wan in Hanoi...

Tra Vinh (VNA) – The southern province of Tra Vinh has culled nearly 1,000 poultry after the A/H5N1 avian flu strain was detected in two households in Cau Ke district. Poultry husbandry in Tra Vinh (Source: laodong.vn) According to the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Office under the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the samples taken from the...

(LSO) - As many as 120 people who had been under quarantine from February 3 at barracks of Regiment 123 of the Lang Son Military High Command in the northern border province of Lang Son, in the face of the acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19), have become eligible to return to their normal lives. The...