HCM City has begun the second phase of an environmental sanitation project at a cost of more than US$524 million, city authorities announced.

More than 500 inmates in a drug rehabilitation center in the southern province of Dong Nai, around 100 kilometers (62 miles) to the northeast of Ho Chi Minh City, struck down its gates and escaped on October 23. 

Vietnamese authorities say they lost nearly 934 hectares to timber poachers this year.

The loss of 549 meters of underground electrical cables from the Vung Ang Economic Zone has disrupted its operations.

Three forestry workers were shot dead and 15 others were injured following a shotgun attack in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong on October 23.

The Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients on October 22 organised free-of-charge operations for 200 poor patients suffering from cataract at the Nguyen Trai Hospital and celebrated the 500,000th case in the past 20 years. 

Up to 27 projects of seven State corporations are listed in the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s directive as being liable to cause environmental pollution. 

Ho Chi Minh City’s Health Department said it launched 15 more points for screening and detecting Zika virus infections in the context of increasing number of infections in the city.

Finding suitable technological solutions to turn rice husk into amorphous silica, a feedstock for many industries, will add huge value to the rice industry, a seminar heard in HCM City on October 21.

The 2016 Asia Pacific Conference on Information Management was held in Hanoi on October 21, aiming to develop and sustain an affluent society, both materially and spiritually, using IT-based solutions in Vietnam.

Students of the Technical Education School in Tigre district of Argentina’s Buenos Aires province had a chance to understand more about the land and people of Vietnam through a recent talk.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has launched the National Statistical Survey Programme, which consists of three national survey censuses and 11 statistical surveys.

The Forestry Management Department of the southern province of Tay Ninh has received 66 turtles, weighing a total of 50 kilogrammes, seized by Moc Bai Border Gate customs officers on a coach from Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city, to Vietnam. 

VOV.VN - On October 22, Vietnamese residents in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic participated in a fundraising program to provide assistance for the flood victims in central Vietnam. 

A range of activities have been organised at the exhibition house No. 45 Trang Tien street, Hanoi, from October 22-25 to raise funds for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims. 

VOV.VN - The Indian Coast Guard Ship SAMRAT moored in Vietnam on October 23 for a 5-day visit to the High Command of the Vietnam’s People Navy, based in central Danang City.

VOV.VN - The tourism segment of the economy has seen more promising days, according to Vietnamese leaders who assembled at a recent conference in Hoi An seeking long-term solutions to the floundering industry.

Rescuers pulled 2,400 boat migrants to safety on October 22, the Italian coastguard said, adding 14 dead bodies had been recovered in the past two days.

Hoi An has started a new project to use solar power for its major attractions, with funding from the German government.

The VinaCapital Foundation’s Heartbeat Vietnam, a charity meant to help children with cardiovascular diseases, has recently marked its 5,000th surgeries  after the program was initiated in 2006.

The Hanoi Party Committee has ordered that one of the two passengers who assaulted a female employee at the city’s Noi Bai International Airport earlier this week issue a public apology to her.

The city is seeking parliamentary approval to implement the first phase of the project with possible loans from Europe.

The Prime Minister has just made a decision to allocate VND260 billion (US$11.7 million) from the central budget’s reserve to help 12 northern localities seriously affected by storms earlier this year.

Three Chinese naval ships carrying 749 sailors are making their first port call at Vietnam’s Cam Ranh International Port in central Khanh Hoa province from October 22-26. 

VOV.VN - Pham Huong was spotted on October 21 making door-to-door delivery of food to flood victims in Quang Binh. She supplied rice and some 1,000 bags of needy supplies to those hard hit by the ravaging floods.

The announcement by Vingroup that Vinschool, an education network run by Vingroup, will shift to a non-profit status has raised questions about the private education market in Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh City customs officials seize nearly US$1 million worth of ivory, the third major ivory seizure in Vietnam this month.

Services from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will be resumed on October 22.

The two unidentified Vietnamese men who jumped in to help a female aviation employee under assault by two passengers at the Hanoi airport on October 18 may face charges for disrupting public order, the Northern Airport Authority said.

The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and the Vietnam Academy of Social Science and Laos’ National Academy of Politics and Administration and Academy of Social Science have signed a cooperation agreement allowing the four agencies to foster scientific exchanges.