A tourism stimulation programme kicked off by the Vietnam Tourism Association and Vietnam Airlines to promote Vietnam as a safe destination amid fear of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The Japanese Government will provide a non-refundable assistance worth more than 482,000 USD for a project on women and child trafficking prevention in mountainous and remote areas of the northwestern border province of Dien Bien.

As of February 26, 31 more people have been categorised as suffering from suspected coronavirus infection due to symptoms such as fevers or coughing after arriving in Vietnam from outbreak areas.

A poor man in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang is seeking the community's financial support as he is battling lymph node cancer.

Vietnamese hospitals have successfully treated all 16 Covid-19 patients, with the last patient discharged from a clinic in Vinh Phuc Province on Wednesday morning

A 40-strong business delegation from the US will launch an investment promotion programme in Vietnam from March 3-6, aiming to expand trade and investment cooperation in the Southeast Asian country, according to an official from the US-ASEAN Business Council.

Four more people have died in some of the worst sectarian violence in decades in New Delhi, a hospital source told AFP on Wednesday, taking the death toll from several days of rioting to 17.