Congestion at ports in southern Vietnam is worsening as the country grapples with the latest outbreak of the COVID-19 outbreak. Theloadstar.com page recorded as mentioned on July 21, 2021. A representative of Saigon Newport Company-Saigon Newport (SNP), the company that…
From September 15, 2021, online information sites including social networks such as Facebook, Google, YouTube will have to remove advertising content within 24 hours if it is determined violating Vietnam’s laws by the Ministry of Information and Communications. That is…
Facing the ongoing pandemic situation in Vietnam, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has revised down its forecast for Vietnam’s economic growth in 2021 from 6.7% to 5.8%. Vietnam’s state-controlled media reported on July 20. Accordingly, ADB believes that the delay…
Confused when not being able to order food through the service and questions about moving in the city are the problems foreigners face when Ho Chi Minh City applies the government’s Directive 16. On groups of the expatriate community living…
The fourth Covid-19 outbreak in Vietnam is continuing to cause additional economic consequences as high-tech companies and large export factories are forced to suspend operations as many businesses are unable to meet the “3 on-site requirements” of the local government.…
Today, July 14, 2021, Hongkong placed Vietnam on the list of countries at high risk of Covid-19. Thus, passengers from Vietnam to Hong Kong will have to be isolated in a hotel for 21 days, in addition to having to…
Vietnam is aiming to further tighten the management of information on the Internet, especially the live reporting or speaking activities on social networks commonly known as live streams. Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communication has just published a draft decree…
Many residents cried out for help amid a two-week strict quarantine in Ho Chi Minh City. “Yesterday, the ward announced that there were three or four cases of infection in my alley. In fact, they have been in a strict…
Many hotel owners in Nha Trang, Ha Long, Ho Chi Minh City … reluctantly had to sell properties worth hundreds of billions of dong ($1 = VND23,500) because they could not bear the debt after 4 outbreaks of the Covid-19…
Mr. Thang is the fifth person from the Báo Sạch newspaper group being probed for “abusing democratic freedom” under Article 331 of Vietnam’s Criminal Code, after Mr. Truong Chau Huu Danh, Nguyen Phuoc Trung Bao, Doan Kien Giang, and Nguyen…
Despite the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak that negatively affects the economies of many countries, the number of remittances flowing to Ho Chi Minh City still increased sharply in the first half of 2021. According to Nguyen Hoang Minh, Deputy…
For more than a month now, Ho Chi Minh City has been considered the “epidemic center” of Vietnam. A series of unprecedentedly strong measures have been applied urgently by the government with the goal of stamping out the epidemic, at…
According to a report of Vietnam’s General Statistics Office (GSO), in the second quarter of this year, the fourth outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has deprived more than 2.3 million Vietnamese people of jobs and career opportunities, of which the…
CPV’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on July 6, on behalf of the Politburo, chaired and directed a meeting of the party’s Central Committee meeting to review and enforce cadre’s discipline. “The Central Committee discussed, concluded, voted, and decided to…
Defend the Defenders, Press Release, July 7, 2021 According to Defend the Defenders’ statistics, as of July 7, 2021, Vietnam’s communist regime is holding at least 258 prisoners of conscience in prisons or similar forms of detention. The number does…
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s Central Committee is holding a conference to review some of the country’s key leadership titles. The 3rd Plenum of the Central Committee in the 13th tenure opened on the morning of July 5 in…
Vietnamese Minister of Health Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Long has just said that in July 2021, Vietnam will receive about 8 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. Mr. Long said that in the vaccine supply roadmap, Vietnam has signed contract…
Mr. Mai Phan Loi, who has a lot of experience in the Vietnamese newspaper industry and has a certain influence on the country’s social networks, has just been arrested in Hanoi. Vietnam’s state-controlled media on July 2 said that the…
Soldier Tran Duc Do, who died in questionable circumstances, was just buried by his family on the afternoon of July 1, an aunt of this soldier confirmed to VOA. An aunt named Trang said that Do, 19 years old, was…
On June 30, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam arrested six senior officials of Binh Duong province. The arrest was described as “expanding the investigation” of a criminal case probed in December 2019 related to a company in which…
On June 25, people in Chuong village, Ly Nhan district, Ha Nam province had just finished sowing seeds for the second crop in their fields when the local government sent a force to block the ditch and fill the path…
A soldier died suddenly on June 28 while on military service, the family suspected he had been beaten to death. From June 29, on the social network Facebook, many photos and videos of soldier Tran Duc Do (19 years old),…
Responding to the case of a 19-year-old soldier who allegedly hanged himself to death while on duty, the Propaganda Department of Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense on the afternoon of June 30 affirmed that “soldier Tran Duc Do was found to…
The US State Department has released its latest annual Fiscal Transparency Report, which says there has yet to be “significant progress” in transparency about government revenue and debt obligations of the state-owned enterprises in Vietnam. The latest report released on…
Concentrated isolation of infected people (F0), close contacts of infected people (F1), and application of social measures are considered successful measures of Vietnam in previous outbreaks of the disease but caused public discontent. The shortcomings include unsanitary, lack of amenities,…
