06:00 | 17/05/2020
While large parts of the rest of the world, including their Irish homeland, have suffered devastating death tolls, Vietnam, remarkably, has recorded no deaths at all and the country is now out of its three-month lockdown. For three Irish youngstera Becky Henson Walne, Richard Dineen and Sinead Goldsmith, it has been a fascinating experience.
06:00 | 14/05/2020
Expats living and working in Vietnam are praising the country’s success in controlling the coronavirus pandemic, the UK Emigrate reported.
06:00 | 13/05/2020
“If you were seen in the streets not wearing a mask, the locals would let you know how irresponsible that is,” the couple said in an article explaining why Vietnam has had success in containing the coronavirus.
16:13 | 14/04/2020
Vietnam Health Ministry has ordered a rare coagulation drug from abroad, which is currently not available in Vietnam, to treat the nCoV-hit British pilot, whose condition is getting worse and the existing drugs are no longer effective for his blood clotting.
15:03 | 14/04/2020
“I’m really fine. Even, now I’m being offered so many jobs that I cannot take them all. Please give this help for the other needy”, said John, the British teacher who ‘beg for meals’ amid COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam.
15:28 | 13/04/2020
Schools closure due to COVID-19 outbreak left Mr.John, an English teacher in Ho Chi Minh city unemployed. No money to live, he had to beg for help from strangers.
09:48 | 13/04/2020
Expats in Vietnam are sending heartfelt messages of gratitude to those who are on the front line of the COVID-19 battle.
19:05 | 07/04/2020
With 27 new patients clear of the novel virus and being released from hospital, Vietnam as of April 7 has 122 recovered patients - almost levels the number of active patients - and witnesses no new infection for three consecutive days.
23:41 | 04/04/2020
Some teachers have lost their jobs as schools and foreign language centers have closed, while others have managed to find other jobs to overcome the difficult period.
08:09 | 31/03/2020
Paul Neville and his family fled Vietnam when the US warns all Americans abroad to immediately return the United States, but was taken aback seeing the lack of safety precautions or serious concern about the COVID-19 crisis in comparison to Asia.
15:14 | 25/03/2020
It’s easy to see that COVID-19 is affecting all business sectors in Vietnam, from transport, accommodation, tourism, retail, restaurant and entertainment service. For foreign entrepreneurs in Vietnam, what are they doing to cope with the economic impact of COVID-19?
08:12 | 25/03/2020
Vietnam is quickly becoming an extremely popular destination for expats to move to, and here's six reasons as to why.
16:11 | 23/03/2020
During an emergency at a hospital in Vietnam, S.S shared his willingness to donate organs and tissues after his death.
14:23 | 21/03/2020
With the issuance of such COVID-19 containing measures from the Vietnamese government as making face masks wearing mandatory in public places, putting suspected cases under centralized isolation, tightening immigration policies, people's daily life has been somehow changing. Several citizens and expats in Vietnam were asked to share their thoughts, how they feel living in the country amidst the epidemic.
13:30 | 21/03/2020
“Daily life in the quarantined area is very quiet. Most of the time people rest in their room. "
07:54 | 20/03/2020
‘Unlike Australia, the US or Europe, there’s no fights over the last roll of toilet paper here’, Sarah Clayton-Lea shared.
00:34 | 20/03/2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic spreading havoc worldwide, foreign diplomatic representatives in Vietnam are helping their citizens with administrative formalities to return home, concurrently providing updated information advice for feeling secure in Vietnam.
14:27 | 19/03/2020
Gavin Wheeldon, a British expat quarantined on the outskirts of Hà Nội, has nothing but good things to say about medical staff and volunteers who are tending him. He states that the United Kingdom should be taking a leaf out of Việt Nam’s book.
10:14 | 19/03/2020
Responding to the call of Mr. Wayne Worrel (an Englishman who has lived in Vietnam for a long time) that ‘Vietnam needs you now’, a large number of foreigners participated in voluntary blood donation in Hanoi yesterday.
09:58 | 18/03/2020
Bryan William Myers is a freelance copy editor, writer who is living in Da Nang, Vietnam. Here he tells us how life of an expat in this coastal city amid COVID-19 pandemic.
