Workers are badly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) is collecting opinions from ministries and agencies to complete a draft resolution on policies to support labourers and businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the second assistance package. According to the General Statistics Office, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a strong impact on the labour market and in the first quarter of 2021, up to 9.1 million workers were affected. Of which, more than 500,000 workers lost their jobs and more than 2.8 million…
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Football Viettel midfielder Nguyễn Hữu Thắng (left) and striker Dương Thanh Hào, seen during training in Bangkok. Viettel will play Ulsan Hyundai in their AFC Champions League debut today. Photo Viettel FC HÀ NỘI Viettel will kick off their debut Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League campaign against defending champions Ulsan Hyundai today in Thailand. The Group F match pits the V.League 1 champions against one of the most successful sides in the competition’s history. Despite the huge challenge, Việt Nam’s champions are confident they can secure a positive result. “The COVID-19 pandemic creates worldwide obstacles. Football also suffers and Viettel…
A resident in HCM City was vaccinated against COVID-19 on Thursday. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Vũ Khánh Vân With the severe fourth wave of infections underway since late April, the number of new cases keeping escalating and the disease has spread further in the country over the past week. Việt Nam is now turning its attention to vaccines, looking at all possible sources to secure 170 million doses to inoculate 70 per cent of its near 97 million population by the end of the year. The Ministry of Health has reported that Việt…
Bắc Giang Province has designed particular areas for projects in different fields, including industry, agriculture, tourism, services, urban areas, logistics, entertainment and health care. — VNA/VNS Photo BẮC GIANG — The northern province of Bắc Giang is applying measures to implement its investment promotion programme for 2021 with an aim to attract about US$1.3 billion worth of investment in 2021, said Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Lê Ánh Dương. The provincial leader said that in the area of industry, the province will prioritise projects with a high proportion of high, new, green and energy-saving…
NIGHTMARES: England manager Gareth Southgate probably still has sleepless nights after missing a penalty against Germany 25 years ago. AFP Photo Paul Kennedy So England will play their old foe Germany in the last 16 of the European Championship, desperate not to pay the penalty as they have in previous big meetings with their rivals. It may be difficult to believe, but England have not beaten Germany in the knock-out stages of an international tournament since 1966 – the year of their only World Cup triumph. Thankfully, for reasons I’ve explained in the past,…
Quách Thị Lan runs at the Asian Athletics Championship in Qatar in 2019. The runner is the only Vietnamese athlete set to compete in track-and-field during the Tokyo Olympics. Photo suckhoedoisong.vn Athletics HÀ NỘI — Quách Thị Lan has promised to give her best performance at the coming Olympics after she was confirmed as the only Vietnamese track-and-field set to compete in Japan. The governing body World Athletics on Wednesday listed Lan as one of the official competitors of the Games as she received a wildcard from the organisers. Lam was nominated for the wildcard, which Việt Nam received after failing…
Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN, gave a speech at the 31st Meeting of the States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). — VNA/VNS Photo Hữu Thanh HÀ NỘI — The 31st Meeting of the States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) took place at the UN headquarters in New York from June 21 to 25. The event looked into the reports by the bodies established under the convention such as the International Tribunal for the Law of…
A scene from Ròm movie with the actor Trần Anh Khoa (left). — Photo idolvnnet.com HÀ NỘI — Trần Anh Khoa, the young actor who played the titular character in Ròm has been awarded the best actor award at the 18th Asian Film Festival which concluded in Rome, Italy on Wednesday. The organisers praised Khoa for his instinctive, energetic and agile acting to play a character who is constantly moving in a hectic life in the city. On behalf of Khoa, who is still in Canada, a representative of the Vietnamese Embassy in Italy received the award and said they appreciated the recognition…
SABECO ensures distancing in accordance with the Ministry of Heath’s 5K message during the vaccination day. — Photo courtesy of SABECO HCM CITY — Nearly 500 workers from Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Corporation (SABECO)’s associated companies and brewery including Saigon Củ Chi brewery, Satraco and Mesab and others out of nearly 1,000 workers in Củ Chi Northwest Industrial Zone on Wednesday got inoculated as part of HCM City’s largest-ever COVID-19 vaccination drive. Saigon Củ Chi brewery is SABECO’s first brewery that is eligible for vaccination support in the largest COVID-19 vaccination drive in HCM City, with more than 830,000 doses for workers in…
A batch of 500,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines along with two tonnes of medical supplies, including syringes, arrived in Việt Nam on June 20. — Photo from the Ministry of Health HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Health has issued a decision on the distribution of 500,000 doses China-donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines. Signed by deputy health minister Trương Quốc Cường, the doses will go to nine northern provinces, with eligible groups for vaccination determined to be Vietnamese people living in communes neighbouring China, people who engage in trade and services exchanges with China, and Chinese nationals staying and working…