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Vietnam and Kazakhstan should strengthen cooperation in areas with good potential, such as agriculture, tourism and transport — President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a reception of Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi in Hanoi on August 18.

Vietnam Airlines has announced plans to resume scheduled flights from Da Nang to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur next month as international tourism gradually recovers.
From September 1, there will be four flights a week on the Danang-Kuala Lumpur route.

Apple is in talks to make Apple Watches and MacBooks in Vietnam for the first time as the US tech giant looks to diversify production away from China, Nikkei Asia reported.
Apple suppliers Luxshare Precision Industry and Foxconn have begun test production of the Apple Watch in northern Vietnam with the goal of producing the device outside of China, according to the publication.

Da Nang woman sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for illegally housing a South Korean man without a passport or visa.
Dang Thuy Diem, 41, was found guilty of "mediating an illegal stay in Vietnam," Da Nang People's Court said on Monday.

Numerous paintings about Vietnam, created by Ukrainian artists, are presented at an exhibition in Uzgorod, Transcarpathian region, Ukraine.
The event officially opened on August 11 as part of events dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Ukraine.

The Ministry of Transport will submit to the Politburo an investment policy for the construction of a high-speed North — South railway worth up to $58.71 billion in September this year.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has warned that Vietnam's fuel reserves are too scarce to meet real demand and a significant increase is needed to ensure fuel security.
The country maintains a reserve of 370,000 cubic meters, which corresponds to 6.5 days of consumption, which is too little, according to a recent report.

Facing complex developments of the monkeypox outbreak in the world, the Health Ministry’s Drug Administration has asked pharmaceutical and material producers to increase the import of and proactively develop monkeypox medication.

For many Vietnamese, the seventh lunar month is also known as the month of ghosts.
Many “hungry ghosts” appear this month, and on the full moon day in July, many families set up a tray with offerings for these ghosts outside.
So what is a hungry ghost?

For the first time in months, Vietnam is among the top four countries with the highest number of recorded Covid-19 cases in a week, the WHO said Wednesday.
Vietnam has been recording over 571,000 new Covid-19 cases a week on average, which is only behind South Korea (713,000 cases), the U.S. (760,000 cases) and Japan (1.4 million cases), according to a World Health Organization report.

According to an Expat Insider survey published in July by InterNations, the world's largest expat community, 80 percent of expats said they were happy with the overall cost of living in Vietnam, compared to a global figure of 45 percent.
However, they rate Vietnam very low in governance.

Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee Fan Van Mai hosted a reception in honor of the new Consul General of Belarus in Ho Chi Minh City in August.
During the meeting, May expressed confidence that the opening of the Consulate General of Belarus in Ho Chi Minh City would contribute to the development of cooperation between the two countries and their communities, confirming that the city authorities would create favorable conditions for the wor