Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City and the municipal health sector must make all-out effort to prevent the Zika virus from spreading widely, said Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam.

VOV.VN - Torrential rains and heavy floods in the central and central highland regions over recent days have left 15 dead, 6 missing and 20 injured, according to the Regional Committee for Natural Disasters Prevention and Control.

Labour disputes kept increasing over the past years and became more complicated, demonstrating a need for adjustment of related regulations and measures to improve relations between workers and employers. 

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh, who is head of the National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC), presented 100 scholarships to students from poor families in Nam Dan district, central Nghe An province, on November 6. 

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee on November 6 received VND700 million (over US$31,000) and US$10,000 donated by overseas Vietnamese to local residents in flood-hit central provinces. 

Two weeks ago, over 500 drug addicts staged a massive breakout at the same center.

So far this year, 181 forest fires occurred in 19 northern provinces, destroying more than 2,400 hectares of forest, heard a recent conference held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the northern mountainous province of Lao Ca

More provinces in the central and Central Highlands region have been affected by floods following heavy rains in the first days of November, including Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Kon Tum and Dak Lak.

A meeting was held in Hanoi on November 6 by the Vietnam – Azerbaijan Friendship Association to mark the 24th anniversary of the Vietnam – Azerbaijan diplomatic ties and the Association’s first founding anniversary (October 10). 

Social media users are not being careful enough while Internet fraud gets increasingly sophisticated, the Hanoi Public Security Department has warned. 

A steel-reinforced cement bridge was inaugurated in Xin Man district, the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on November 6 after 20 months of construction, replacing an old suspended bridge across the Chay River. 

Books from Vietnam are now available at the “Vietnam Book Corners” which were inaugurated on November 4 at the National Library and Jadavpur University in the eastern city of Kolkata, India’s West Bengal State. 

Human resource development is the key to enhancing the country’s economic development, social stability and international integration, according to Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung.

French police have arrested five Vietnamese hiding inside a truck in an attempt to enter the UK illegally.

VOV.VN -  A national seminar hosted by the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) and the Vietnamese Linguistics Association on preserving the nature of the Vietnamese language on mass media was held in Hanoi on November 5.

VOV.VN - From 2011 to 2015, the number of poor households in Vietnam declined 2% a year.

Wildlife poaching has reached an alarming level in Phan Thiet, a city in the south-central Vietnamese province of Binh Thuan, as wild animals are hunted wherever they live.

The southern province of Binh Duong has instructed its health department to coordinate with relevant agencies in implementing measures to prevent and fight Zika virus.

The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has launched its 4G service on Phu Quoc Island in the southern coastal province of Kien Giang.

The Philippines has recorded six more Zika virus infection cases, bringing the total number of locally-transmitted cases to 23, Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial told the press on November 4.

The Foreign Affairs Department of Danang and the Vietnam Health Improvement Project (VNHIP) have inked a new agreement on improving health care for kids with HIV/AIDS in the central city in 2017-21.

A ceremony to celebrate the 35th founding anniversary of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) took place at Vietnam Quoc Tu (national pagoda) in Ho Chi Minh City on November 5. 

The International Rice Research Institute has honoured former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat for his “ardent support” to the Vietnam-IRRI collaboration.

Vietnamese communities in many countries across the world have made donations to help people in central provinces who suffered from flooding caused by prolonged downpours in the past month. 

VOV.VN - Can Tho has received 2016 Asian Townscape Award from the Asia-Pacific regional office of the UN Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) program at a recent ceremony in China’s Yinchuan city. 

More than 200kg worth of products looted by local mobs shortly after spilling out from a burning truck in south-central Vietnam earlier this week have been retrieved.

The 88-year-old Binh Tay Market will be closed soon.

A cyber training platform, purportedly the first of its kind in Vietnam, was launched November 3 by a cyber security training institute in Ho Chi Minh City.

About 700 Vietnamese and foreign experts have gathered at a two-day national paediatrics seminar that commenced in Hanoi on November 4. 

Maps, documents and publications on Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos are on display in the Red river delta province of Ha Nam.