Sunday, July 25, 2021, 09:00 GMT+7
People travel from southern provinces to the Central Highlands on July 24, 2021. Photo: Dinh Cuong / Tuoi Tre
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Politics United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will pay an official visit to Vietnam on July 28 and 29 at the invitation of Vietnamese Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang, the
Vietnam News Agency reported. The first session of Vietnam’s 15th National Assembly will be shortened by an additional three days and is expected to conclude on July 28 due to the serious COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Updates The Ministry of Health confirmed 3,973 local COVID-19 cases, including 2,328 cases in Ho Chi Minh City, on Sunday morning, raising the country’s tally to 94,913, with 17,583 recoveries and 370 deaths.
Da Lat police seize dubious truckload of potatoes from China tuoitrenews.vn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tuoitrenews.vn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Tropical depression located about 110km from Mong Cai City
At 7am on July 22, the centre of a tropical depression was located on the mainland south of Guangxi Province (China), about 110km east-northeast of Mong Cai City in Quang Ninh Province, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).
The strongest winds near its centre were at 40-50 km/hour, with shock at level 8.
Over the next 24 hours the tropical depression will move southwest at a speed of about 5km per hour.
Nearly 4,800 new domestic COVID-19 cases reported on July 20 vietnamnet.vn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vietnamnet.vn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HCMC expats look out for each other amid pandemic
By Dang Khoa,Long Nguyen July 19, 2021 | 07:16 am GMT+7
Regardless of where they are from, foreigners in Saigon are extending a helping hand to each other and even locals to help cope with the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Friday morning Robin Deepu, owner of a restaurant in Saigon’s District 2, and his employees cooked meals for 400 people and took them to locked-down areas and hospitals in the city to donate to expats, locals and frontline medical workers. Both expats and Vietnamese are facing a lot of difficulties at the moment, and I just want to share their burden, Deepu, an Indian businessman living in Vietnam for more than 10 years, said.