Vietnam has seen certain achievements made in tobacco harm prevention and control but challenges continue to emerge, including the increasing trend of smoking e-cigarettes, Associate Professor and Dr Luong Ngoc Khue has said.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has called for tightened measures to cope with the rising threats of the Covid-19 pandemic as more people are returning from abroad for Tet.

Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake is being decorated with flowers and other decorations to welcome the 13th National Congress.

Foreign passenger buses have been fined for operating illegally in Vietnam, according to the traffic police in Dalat.

Yuichiro welled up as he collected a food parcel at a Tokyo outreach event offering help to the growing number of Japanese pushed into poverty by the coronavirus pandemic.

India on Monday stepped up efforts to bolster trust in coronavirus vaccines after it was revealed that nearly a third of those invited to get jabs at the launch of a nationwide drive failed to turn up.

Authorities in Lam Dong Province are planning to set up traffic lights in the tourist city of Dalat in an attempt to resolve traffic jams.