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Police in Vung Tau City in southern Vietnam have arrested a man who used his Facebook page to disseminate false and distorted information related to the current COVID-19 fight in the country. Nguyen Thien Nghia, 50, was detained on Thursday on charges of ‘illegal provision or use of information on computer networks or telecommunications networks,’ as prescribed in the Vietnamese Penal Code, police officers said. The man, who hails from Ho Chi Minh City but resides in Vung Tau, part of Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, will be temporarily jailed for two months pending prosecution for his offense, police said. Nghia had been found using his Facebook account 'Nghia Nguyen Thien' to post and share many stories that contained untrue contents in relation to COVID-19 prevention and control activities, and research and production of COVID-19 vaccines. The man’s posts both caused panic and anxiety among readers and denied the efforts of authorities, relevant agencies, and the people in …

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Speakers at the online workshop "Step-up for women in economic recovery against COVID-19”. — Photo courtesy of the organisers Countries around the world are moving from targeting zero COVID-19 cases to living safely with the disease, and Viet Nam is no exception. In this critical moment, co-operation among businesses and socio-economic organisations to empower women is motivation for the journey towards economic recovery and improvement of living qualities, while enhancing women’s roles and positions in families and society, delegates said at a recent online workshop. Held by Unilever Vietnam in partnership with the United Nations for Women, National Women’s Union, British Embassy, Standard Chartered Bank and Facebook, the workshop "Step-up for women in economic recovery against COVID-19” aims to raise public awareness of the impact caused by the pandemic on Vietnamese women and young girls, and to share women’s inspirational stories amid the pandemic. The organisers also …

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At present, a total of 11,409 patients are under treatment in HCM City, including 369 severe cases. By October 19, the city had administered a total of 12,648,484 vaccine doses. According to Ho Chi Minh City's Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, there are 859 children under 16 years old being treated for Covid-19 in the city. Experts say that children with Covid-19 usually have mild symptoms and recover quickly. In the 4th outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, the city has had a total of 419,599 cases of Covid-19, according to the Ministry of Health’s statistics. At present, a total of 11,409 patients are under treatment, including 369 severe cases. There are 859 patients who are children under 16 years old. Experts say that infected children usually recover quickly, with mild symptoms. Severe cases are often children who are obese and have underlying disease. By October 19, the city had administered a total of 12,648,484 vaccine doses. As many as …

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Workers in a seafood factory in southern Binh Duong Province. The EU is among the largest export markets for Vietnamese seafood. — VNA/VNS Photo Foreign direct investment (FDI) is to continue flowing into Viet Nam from Europe in the medium to long-term thanks to the EU-Viet Nam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA), which was ratified in August last year, experts said. A year later, two-way trade and investment have seen significant progress. Viet Nam-EU trade has increased by 11.9 per cent year-on-year to reach US$54.6 billion. By the end of September this year, EU members were running 2,242 projects in the Southeast Asian country with a total investment registered of $22.2 billion, 5.58 per cent of all foreign investment in Viet Nam. The agreement, which focuses on the liberalisation of non-direct investments and the procedure for settling disputes between investors and the State, replaced the 20 previous bilateral investment agreements between Viet Nam and 21 EU countries. …

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Ha Thanh Hau of Thu Duc City said she has gotten used to working from home during five months of social distancing. She is just one of many office staff in big cities like Hanoi and HCM City who want to continue remote working when social distancing comes to an end. Office staff working from home in HCM City. Hau is a single mother to a six-year-old girl, who still has to stay at home and learn online instead of going to school. Hau said working from home allows her to have more time to take care of her daughter, monitor her learning and keep up with the housework. As the pandemic is still not over she does not want to hire a domestic helper to take care of her daughter. “I prefer to work from home for a while longer, until my daughter is allowed to go back to school,” she said. Nguyen Ha An, who works in an office in Hoan Kiem District in Hanoi, said she has asked her boss to allow her to continue working from home after social distancing ends in Hanoi. An …

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Passenger buses at Giáp Bát station in Hà Nội. The transport companies are planning to operate at their maximum capacity to compensate for the sales lost in the last three months. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hiếu By Mai Hương HÀ NỘI — As the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted the implementation of Việt Nam’s economic development plans, the National Assembly (NA) and Government have been proactively and urgently deploying stimulus packages to quickly restore the economy and leverage growth. 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. The Resolution offers support for enterprises and individuals affected by COVID-19 through tax reductions with a total value of up to VNĐ21.3 trillion (US$926 million). The beneficiaries will enjoy direct tax reductions which is considered more practical than the extension of tax payments in previous support packages. …

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The Ministry of Health documented 3,985 additional COVID-19 patients in Vietnam on Friday, together with 5,202 recoveries and 56 fatalities. The latest cases, including eight imported and 3,977 domestic infections, were found in 50 provinces and cities, the health ministry said, noting that 1,782 patients were detected in the community. Ho Chi Minh City recorded 1,205 of the locally-infected cases, Binh Duong Province 471, Dong Nai Province 417, Dak Lak Province 266, An Giang Province 220, Soc Trang Province 148, Tay Ninh Province 147, Khanh Hoa Province 43, Can Tho City 17, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province 12, and Hanoi eight. Vietnam had logged 3,618 domestically-acquired infections on Thursday. The nation has reported 876,788 community transmissions in 62 out of its 63 provinces and cities since the fourth virus wave emerged on April 27. Ho Chi Minh City is severely affected with 423,406 patients, followed by Binh Duong Province with 227,799, Dong Nai Province with 60,498, Long …

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Phu Quoc City off Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam will receive international visitors with COVID-19 vaccination certificates, often called ‘vaccine passports,’ next month, according to a plan for tourism recovery amid the COVID-19 fight. This plan, which has been approved by the central government, will be implemented for six months from November 20, when the island is scheduled to reach a safe vaccination coverage for its population, the province’s administration announced on Thursday. Under this two-phase plan, the island will receive fully vaccinated travelers from countries with effective COVID-19 control in the European Union, the Middle East, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and Oceania. All visitors are required to come from charter flights and buy package tours organized by travel agencies, according to the plan. Guests must obtain full COVID-19 vaccination certificates recognized by Vietnamese authorities, with the second dose administered at …

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Doctors at the Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital on Thursday removed more than 100 tumors weighing about five kilograms from the abdomen of a 50-year-old woman from the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang. Dr. Nguyen Van Tien, head of the surgery department at the hospital, said that the patient suffered a swollen, painful abdomen upon her admission. She had noticed unusual signs about two years ago, but deferred seeking medical care for her abdominal pain over complicated COVID-19 developments in Ho Chi Minh City. It was not until the coronavirus pandemic was basically put under control in the southern city that the patient visited the Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. After a consultation meeting, doctors diagnosed the patient with uterine sarcoma, a disease in which malignant cells form in the muscles of the uterus or other tissues that support the uterus, so they decided to perform a surgery on the woman to remove the tumors. Surgeons took out a total of more than 100 …

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The Vietnam Sports Administration is developing a plan for sports competitions to take place safely under ‘new normal’ conditions based on the government’s regulations on flexible and safe adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the final months of 2020, sports competitions were held in a frenzy as the COVID-19 pandemic was put under control across the country. However, the pandemic is much more serious this year, thus many aspects of normal life, including sports, have been severely affected. In a recent document, the Vietnam Sports Administration stated that two national championships would be organized on a trial basis as part of a plan to organize sports competitions safely in the country’s ‘new normal.’ The two sports events are expected to begin in late October in provinces and cities where the pandemic has been deemed under control. The organizing boards of these competitions must closely coordinate with health and disease control authorities, which will set …

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