Women’s participation in politics is one of the key contents of gender equality as it will create more opportunities for women to raise their voice in making policies in various spheres, Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan said at a workshop in northern Ha Nam province on December 27.

The Vietnamese Government always encourages scientists to study and seek solutions to traffic safety management problems and contribute more to fine-tuning transport regulations and policies, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.

Vietnam’s health sector will spread the antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to cover early-stage HIV carriers, raising the number of the benefited to 105,000 in 2015.

As many as 10,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine manufactured by the Company for Vaccine and Biological Production No1 (VABIOTECH) under the Ministry of Health (MoH) will be exported to the Philippines, according to the company’s Director Do Tuan Dat.

The gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014 is estimated to grow by 5.98 percent over the previous year, Director General of the Vietnam General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Bich Lam reported at a press conference in Hanoi on December 27.

Representatives from the Cuban Embassy and Hanoi’s Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association visited the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh on December 27 on the occasion of Cuba’s 56 th National Day (January 1, 1959-2015).

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received in Hanoi on December 27 a high-level delegation of Laos’ Luang Prabang province, led by Governor Khampheng Saysompheng. 

Independent filmmaker Siu Pham has showcased her latest two films Fog Over The Summit and Mother's Room at the 5th Experimental Media Art Festival in Taipei. 

Some 6,500 people are expected to join the second HCM City Run, which will be held on January 18 in Phu My Hung, HCM City's District 7. 

Border guards in the northern mountainous province of Son La have arrested three people, including a Lao woman, suspected of trafficking nearly 800 ecstasy pills via the border between Vietnam and Laos.