Voters meeting President Truong Tan Sang in HCM City on November 25 suggested that officials found to be corrupt or responsible for losing State assets should face harsher penalties.

(VOV) - The Tra (pangasius) fish industry will achieve its target of 10 percent of output meeting Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) standards by the end of this year, a conference heard in HCM City on November 21.

Vietnam has received an aid package worth 136,000 euro (US$174,000) from the French Government to carry out a programme tackling climate change in the central city of Danang.

A national remembrance event for traffic accident victims, organised by the National Committee for Traffic Safety, was held and broadcast live nationwide on November 19 in Hanoi.

Hanoi police rescued an 11-year-old boy from kidnappers on November 19 morning and returned him to his mother in Ha Dong District.

Nguyen Anh Khoi beat Andrey Esipenko of Russia in the 11th and final round of the World Youth Chess Championship which wrapped up early on November 19 in Maribor, Slovenia.

Despite the geographical divide, the desire to accelerate bilateral relations had brought Vietnam and Ukraine closer, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a business conference in Hanoi on November 15.

Vietnam won their sixth and seventh gold medals in the Southeast Asian Fencing Federation Championship after winning team events on the fourth day on November 15.

Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh lost to Parupalli Kashyap of India 21-12, 20-22, 14-21 at the Li Ning China Cup on November 15.

Junior Nguyen Ngoc Linh was awarded first prize for her story Perfect Triangle on November 15 at a writing contest launched in 2011-12 by the Danish embassy and Kim Dong Publishing House for children from three to 14 years of age.