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The Disabilities Research and Capacity Development Centre has launched a project to provide legal aid to and safeguard the rights of people with disabilities.

More than 150 doctors at the Hanoi-based Military Central Hospital 108 performed transplant for six patients with organs from a brain-dead donor.

The Hanoi-based Military Central Hospital 108 has become the first medical facility in Vietnam and Southeast Asia to successfully perform a double forearm transplant.

Doctors at the Hanoi-based Military Central Hospital 108 has successfully conducted first double arm transplant in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

A code of conduct for cyberspace is to be promulgated by the end of this year, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung has said.

Vietnam will pilot the use of mobile phone software that allows users to report violations of regulations on tobacco harm prevention and control in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem and Tay Ho districts.

The mobile phone retail business is believed to be saturated and will continue to face difficulties in growth.

The Vietnam International Bank (VIB) posted pre-tax profit of over 1.66 trillion VND (72 million USD) in the third quarter of 2020, up 30 percent month-on-month and 52 percent year-on-year, according to its third quarter 2020 financial report published recently.

The Vietnam Public Relations Network (VNPR) on October 10 honoured winners of the photo contest “Resilient Vietnam,” which aims to capture how Vietnamese people resiliently fight COVID-19.

The house of the future we've been dreamed of finally appeared before our eyes. LG Electronics built a three-story and one basement level LG ThinQ Home in Pangyo New Town in Gyeonggi-do, taking a total floor area of about 500sq.m.

Thai authorities said on October 2 that the country will begin reopening its borders to outsiders and kick-start the tourism industry plagued by the COVID-19 pandemic with a flight from China this month.

Previously, online shopping mainly focused on clothing and home appliances products; now customers can get "fresh" items with only a few clicks.

Digital transformation provides a challenge and opportunity for sustainable agricultural and rural development and narrowing gaps between rural and urban areas, experts have said.

Police in the northwestern border province of Dien Bien said on September 23 that local authorities had arrested two people for trafficking drugs.

Thailand has unveiled a three-month stimulus package worth 51 billion THB (1.63 million USD) to boost domestic consumption and support the COVID-19-hit economy.

Domestic businesses are advised to grab chances and take the initiative to prevent and cope with risks and challenges from the cyberspace, according to the Department of Cybersecurity and High-technology Crime Prevention under the Ministry of Public Security.

Online shopping and electronic payments in Vietnam have become more common in recent years as more of the country's population gains access to the internet, and e-commerce in the 95 million-strong market is set to enter a rapid growth phase in the near future, according to industry experts.

Vietnam’s robust economic performance over the past three decades has been heavily dependent on exports and foreign direct investment (FDI), with foreign invested companies accounting for 67.8 percent of the country’s total export turnover in 2019, according to the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) of Singapore.

Assuming the AIPA Chair 2020 amidst complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) has carried out a lot of activities within the framework of the 41st General Assembly of ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA-41) in an appropriate manner to increase the role of AIPA in joining hands with countries’ Governments in protecting the ASEAN common house.

There have been signs of reduction in the habit of using cash among people, but the switching to cashless paymentsremains slow, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).