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Doctors working at Viet Duc hospital in Hanoi announced on September 1 that they successfully conducted a fifth lung transplant from a brain-dead donor on a patient who been suffering from interstitial lung disease, according to Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV).

According to the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, 93,720 foreign labourers have been working in Vietnam as of August 2020.

Vietnam’s overseas investment in August surged by 2.5 times compared to last July with USD77.3 million in registered capital, according to data released by the Foreign Investment Department under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Voice of Vietnam has reported.

Statistics from the Vietnam Maritime Administration showed that total cargo volume handled at Vietnam’s seaports reached nearly 485.3 million tons in the Jan-Aug period, up 6% year on year.

The export of aquatic products has shown signs of recovery in the third quarter of this year and export revenue thereof is anticipated to reach USD8.26-USD8.3 billion by the end of 2020, according to the Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), the Nhan Dan newspaper reported.

Vietnamese telecom giant Viettel Group has been awarded with the 2020 Silver Stevie Awards for Great Employers – Telecommunications, Vietnam News Agency has reported.

Vietnamese Goods Exhibition Centre has opened at VT-Namnueng shopping mall in the Thai northeastern province of Udon Thani, Thailand.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) is importing more shrimps from Vietnam, and has become the fifth biggest importer of Vietnam’s shrimps with 10.7 percent of market share, according to Vietnam News Agency.

A total of 123 laboratories nationwide have been licensed to conduct RT-PCR tests with a capacity of 46,000 samples per day, the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) quoted information from the Ministry of Health.

The Defence Ministry has held a ceremony in Hanoi to hand over the President’s decision to assign 10 officers to join the UN peacekeeping operation at the UN headquarters, the Central African Republic and South Sudan.

‘Thien Duong Goi Ten’ (A Trip to Heaven), a film by young Vietnamese director Duong Dieu Linh, has won a prize at the 2020 Locarno International Film Festival which was held in Switzerland from August 5 to 15, Nhan Dan newspaper has reported.

According to the Office of the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, current torrential rains are causing human and asset losses in various northern localities.

A respect-paying service began at the National Funeral House in Hanoi at 8 a.m Friday morning as part of the State funeral for former Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu, according to the VOV.

Vietnam’s export is set to grow 5 percent annually from 2021 to 2025 to reach 340 billion USD in 2025, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)’s plan on socio-economic development for the five-year period.

Three more COVID-19 patients, two in Quang Ngai and one in Da Nang, were declared on August 12 to have fully recovered from the disease, bringing the number of recoveries to 402, Vietnam News Agency has reported.

Foreign markets such as Japan, Germany, and Taiwan (China) have moved to welcome Vietnamese workers yet again, according to the foreign labour management department at the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, according to Vietnam News Agency.

Hanoi ranks 15th in the list of 25 most popular destinations of the 2020 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards.

Forbes has announced the list of top 50 brands this year with total value rising by 22 percent to more than 12.6 billion USD, according to Vietnam News Agency.

Hanoi ranks 15th in the list of 25 most popular destinations of the 2020 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards, Vietnam News Agency reported.

(CPV) – The ASEAN+3 Finance and Central Bank Deputies’ Meeting (AFCDM+3) took place in Hanoi on August 5.

A batch of 250 tonnes of longans of Hai Duong province will be exported to the European, Australian, and Singaporean markets during the harvest season this year, according to Radio the Voice of Vietnam.

Vietnamese short movie “May nhung khong mua” (Live in the Cloud – Cuckoo Land) has been nominated for the Orizzonti Short Competition award at the 2020 Venice Film Festival to be held in Italy from September 2nd-12th, Vietnam News Agency has reported.

According to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention, the nation’s first death is a 70 year-old male patient who was a resident of Hoi An city of the central province of Quang Nam who had been receiving treatment at Da Nang Internal Medicine – Endocrinology Hospital.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has requested tourism departments of localities nationwide to promptly take measures to ensure safety for tourists in the face of the complex developments of COVID-19, according to Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnam attracted 3.15 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) and capital for share purchases in July, representing a rise of 79.8 percent against the same period last year and 76.2 percent against June, Vietnam News Agency quoted statistics from the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment reporting that.

Airlines have announced cancellation of all flights to/from Da Nang city in central Vietnam over two weeks to present the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) will soon grant permission to airlines to maximize number of flights leaving Da Nang city amid new developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fifteen more Japanese businesses want to open plants in Vietnam, Chief Representative of the Hanoi Office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Takeo Nakajima told a press conference on July 23rd, according to Vietnam News Agency

The northern province of Bac Giang earned some 6.9 trillion VND (300 million USD) from lychee and support services this year, up 600 billion VND against last year, according to local authorities.

Over additional 50 flights will be arranged to bring over 13,000 Vietnamese citizens home from now to the end of August 2020 thanks to collaboration between the aviation sector and diplomatic and military agencies.