The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has just issued a decision approving and announcing the results of land area statistics for 2021, which states that nearly 1.2 million hectares of land across the country had been not used yet as of December 31, 2021. Over 1.2 million hectares of land remain unused in Vietnam. (Photo: VNA) The...

The Government has recently issued a resolution approving the strategy on sustainable exploitation and use of maritime resources and protection of maritime environment by 2030 with a vision towards 2050. Illustrative image (Source: VNA) According to Resolution No. 48/NQ-CP dated April 3, maritime resources will be used effectively and equally in service of socio-economic development in line with...

The Con Dao National Park off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau received the ASEAN Heritage Park certificate at a ceremony held on April 28. Some species in the coral reefs of the Con Dao National Park. (Source: VNA) The ceremony also celebrated the park’s 30th founding anniversary (March 31, 1993 - 2023)...

On April 30, 25 years ago, the first three Vietnamese IVF babies were born at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tu Du Hospital, laying the first brick for the IVF sector in Vietnam. The first three Vietnamese IVF babies were born 25 years ago (Photo: Tu Du Hospital) IVF, or In vitro fertilisation, is one of several techniques available to...

The Ministry of Health has asked authorities of provinces and centrally-run cities nationwide to pay special attention to strengthening the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic and other dangerous epidemics before, during and after the national holidays of Hung Kings Commemoration Day, Reunification Day and May Day from April 29 to May 3. At a quarantine and...

Forty-eight years after the national reunification, the Vietnamese community in Laos have been proud of the country’s achievements in national development and external relations, and supported the Party and State’s policy regarding the overseas Vietnamese (OV) community. A view of Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: VNA) Pham Van Hung, President of the Vietnamese Association in Laos, attributed the country’s...

Overseas Vietnamese in Hong Kong (China) have shared their feelings about Vietnam’s changes after 48 years since the liberation of the South and national reunification (April 30) during a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'s resident correspondent. A corner of Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: VNA) Fagot artist Nguyen Bao Anh, who graduated from the UK's...

State President Vo Van Thuong, central and local officials, along with thousands of people offered incense in commemoration of the Hung Kings, the legendary founders of Vietnam, at the Hung Kings Temple in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 29 (the 10th day of the third lunar month). State President Vo Van Thuong and officials offer...

More than 24.6 million searches for health insurance information have been conducted utilising chip-based citizen identity card numbers. A medical worker in Yen Lac Medical Centre, Vinh Phuc, registering a patient for medical examinations using brand-new chip-embedded citizen ID cards. (Photo:VNA) These searches have been facilitated at 12,401 medical examination and treatment facilities currently implementing health insurance-covered medical examination...

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has urged all users to take measures to ensure cyber security, especially systems containing personal data and platforms in service of national digital transformation, during the National Reunification Day and May Day holidays from April 29 to May 3. Illustrative image (Photo: vietnamnet.vn) According to the ministry's e-newspaper Vietnamnet, IT experts said...