October 1, 2021

British navy warship docks at Cam Ranh Port, beginning Vietnam visit

  British Royal Navy ship HMS Richmond docked at Cam Ranh International Port in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on Friday, beginning a four-day visit to Vietnam, the UK Embassy announced. The visit comes on the 10th anniversary of UK-Vietnam defence cooperation and just two months after the first-ever visit

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Vietnam could achieve trade balance this year

 Vietnam could achieve trade balance, or even a trade surplus, this year, Deputy Head of the Agency of Foreign Trade Tran Thanh Hai told a press conference on Thursday. Vietnam ran a trade surplus of 500 million USD in September and a deficit of more than 2.1 billion USD in nine

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Vietnamese scientists develop “smart eyes” for COVID-19 fight

 Scientists at Vietnam’s Center for Informatics and Computing have developed a medical declaration checking device called CLi-SmartEyes, which can track the flow of people in large numbers and detect those who are at risk of spreading the coronavirus. People just need to place their forehead 3cm from the device and

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Vietnamese writer wins US’s Dayton Literary Prize for Peace 2021

   Vietnamese writer Nguyen Phan Que Mai has been named runner-up in the fiction category of the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her latest hit novel ‘The Mountains Sing.’ “The Mountains Sing” is a story about historical events through the perspective of members of four generations of the Tran

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EU postpones FTA negotiations with Australia

  Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan said negotiations for a free trade agreement with the EU have been postponed, after fury over Australia’s decision to cancel a major French submarine contract worth 40 billion USD. The 12th round of negotiations scheduled for October 12 have been postponed for one month. Tehan

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Domestic flights resume from October 1

Domestic flights began to formally resume on Friday. The Ministry of Transport’s plan will be first applied to localities where COVID-19 prevention and control measures have been eased. In addition to complying with health regulations and declaring health status as set by the Health Ministry, passengers must carry a negative test

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