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Tokyo (VNA) – Two Vietnamese interns have gone missing after Super Typhoon Haishen swept through Kyushu Island, southwest of Japan, on early September 7, the Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka prefecture confirmed. The interns were working at the Aioigumi Joint Stock Company in Miyazaki prefecture, located on Kyushu Island. Prior to the landing of Haishen, concerned that the two interns’ accommodation near the company might be unsafe in the storm, the director suggested them to take shelter at his house, which was also the firm’s office and had stronger structure. However, the Consulate General said, the powerful typhoon triggered a landslide on a mountain there, making this house collapse into the bank of a nearby river. The two Vietnamese interns, together with the director’s wife and child, went missing as a result. Meanwhile, the director was injured and hospitalised. Japanese authorities are searching for the missing. Vietnamese Consul General in … [Read more...] about Two Vietnamese interns in Japan go missing in Typhoon Haishen

Hanoi (VNA) – The COVID-19 tally in Vietnam remains at 1,049 as the country continued to have no new COVID-19 cases to report within 12 hours as of 6am of September 8, according to the national steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control. Of the total, 691 were infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 domestically, including 551 linked with central Da Nang city since the latest outbreak began there on July 25. As many as 854 patients have recovered while 35 have succumbed to the disease. Most of the fatalities were the elderly with serious underlying health conditions. Among those still under treatment, 14 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 19 others twice and 33 thrice. There are 37,474 people having close contact with confirmed cases or coming from pandemic-hit regions under quarantine at present, including 834 in hospitals, 13,365 in other quarantine sites and 23,274 at home or accommodation facilities./. … [Read more...] about Vietnam sees no new COVID-19 cases, total stands at 1,049

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has continued to receive congratulations from world leaders on the occasion of the 75th National Day (September 2). Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent a congratulatory message to Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong. Meanwhile, Presidents Ibrahim Mohamed Solih of the Maldives and KP Sharma Oli of Nepal extended greetings to both Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The Vietnamese PM also received congratulations from his counterparts Ludovic Orban of Romania, Andrew Holness of Jamaica, and Mohammad Shtayyeh of Palestine. On this occasion, Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh was congratulated by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Lucian Aurescu, Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid, and Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki./. … [Read more...] about More world leaders congratulate Vietnam on 75th National Day

In Vietnam, total newly-registered and added capital as well as capital contribution and share purchases by foreign investors in the first eight months was $19.54 billion, equalling 86.3 per cent of the year prior, and FDI disbursement was $11.35 billion, equivalent to 94.9 per cent. These results are lower than in the same period of the 2017-2019 period but better than in 2016 and previous years. … [Read more...] about Gliding over brief hush in FDI flows

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc offered incense to President Ho Chi Minh at House 67 in the relic site of the late leader in Hanoi on September 7. The activity took place on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the August Revolution, the 75th National Day (September 2), and the 51th death anniversary of the president. The PM expressed his gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh – the talented leader of the Party and the nation, the great teacher of Vietnam’s revolution and the hero of national liberation. Talking to the relic site’s staff, PM Phuc asked for better preservation of the archives, items and landscape in the site while stepping up collection and communications to serve domestic and foreign visitors learning about the life, career, ideology and morality of the late leader. House 67 is where President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked from December 1954 to the day he passed away (September 2, 1969). It was also the venue of Politburo … [Read more...] about Prime Minister pays homage to President Ho Chi Minh