The Lao government has honoured 63 Vietnamese collectives and 148 individuals for their efforts to locate and repatriate the remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and experts who died during the war in Laos.
A manual book on care and nutrition support for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) has been introduced to health workers to enable their better food counseling services to these people.
Hanoi is set to get in more direct investment from Japan through a project signed with Japan’s Forval Corporation on September 23.
More than 3,000ha in the Mekong Delta city of Soc Trang's mangrove forest will be co-managed by local authorities and Vo Thanh Van Hamlet coastal forest co-management group, which includes over 750 local residents.
A group of American, Canadian, Singaporean and Vietnamese scientists has discovered a new species of narrow-mouthed frog in the southern province of Dong Nai and the Central Highland province of Gia Lai.
Vietnam was elected to chair of the Board of Governors for the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) during the 2013-14 term at its meeting on September 23.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong received Executive Committee Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) Shii Kazuo, who is on his ongoing visit to Vietnam, in Hanoi on September 23.
The Iranian folk music group Homayoun will perform several famous traditional Persian music pieces at a performance in Hanoi this week.
Son Dong village in Hanoi’s outlying Hoai Duc district is known as a dynamic craft village with enduring vitality, where talented artisans breathe fresh air into their products and enthusiastically promote their brand to the world.
Thua Thien-Hue province needs to create an overall management plan for the Hue imperial relic complex that is in line with the local planning, ensuring harmony between development and preservation, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.