Risks of further congestion remain due to uncertainties surrounding the Covid-19 situation and limited loading capabilities from both sides.

Once completed, the project would be a key component under the Kunming (China) – Hai Phong transport corridor, which is a cooperation program among six countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has allowed localities to use state capital and social resources to upgrade eight border gate economic zones in the period 2021-25.

The signed contracts are in the fields of export-import of metal ores, chemicals, agro-forestry-fishery products, and fertilizer, among others.

Colorful hillside rice terraces filled with water look like beautiful watercolor paintings.

Of the newest infected cases confirmed on March 6 onward, eight are British, one Irish, and one Mexican.

The new cases took the same flight as Hanoi's first infected person who visited Lombardy, an epicenter in Italy, in mid-February.

People who returned from China will be quarantined for 14 days before coming home.

Vietnam declares the national epidemic after the country found six infected cases, including one under human-to-human transmission.