VOV.VN - Concerned about a shortage of construction workers for an expected building boom ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Japan is looking to tap into Vietnamese labour to bridge the gap.

A text-message campaign will be activated from October 15 to November 30 to raise fund for the poor, especially those from extremely difficult areas and ethnic minority groups. 

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) on October 12 seized a boat with 20 Vietnamese fishermen onboard for allegedly entering waters 26 nautical miles from Tanjung Sedili to the southeast.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society was selected to represent national organisations in Southeast Asia to host a meeting marking International Day for Disaster Reduction in the central province of Quang Nam on October 13. 

Atomic energy has been successfully applied in various sectors in Vietnam like health care, industry and agriculture, heard a seminar in Hanoi on October 13.

VOV.VN - Twenty Vietnamese fishermen have been detained by the Malaysian Navy for illegally trespassing in disputed territorial waters 26 nautical miles southeast of Tanjung Sedili, per multiple news sources.

Demolition work on the Saigon Tax Trade Centre, built by the French 135 years ago, began on October 12 in HCM City to make way for a 40-storey office and hotel tower and the first metro subway route.

The upcoming pilot programme for Public-Private Partnership (PPP), which was recently approved by the Prime Minister, will focus on strengthening the country’s science and technology progress. 

A law on renewable energy is needed to ensure sustainable and effective development of renewable energy, according to Dr. Duong Duy Hoat from the Institute of Energy Science. 

A proposal that the retirement age be raised in the amended Labor Law will be submitted to the National Assembly (NA) in 2017, according to Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Minh Huan.

Some 463 taxi drivers in Hanoi have had their badge revoked for violating a regulation on driving time set by the municipal Department of Transport.

More than 150 trees in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been trimmed, chopped down or relocated to provide space for the construction of urban railway and metro projects.

More than 650 million people in Southeast Asia live in disaster-prone areas, ANTARA News quoted Chief of the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Willem Rampangilei as saying.

Salaries of officials, public servants and those working in the armed forces should not base on the minimum wage, heard a workshop in Hanoi on October 12.

A photo exhibition featuring the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos during the 1961-1975 period opened in the Lao central province of Savannakhet on October 12.

The twinning relationship between border villages of the northern province of Son La and Houaphan province of Laos has helped foster cultural exchange and experience sharing in economic development between the two border localities.

VOV.VN -It has been unveiled that construction of the 1,000-bed Ho Chi Minh City Paediatrics Hospital, the city’s third children’s hospital, is on track with the grand opening set to be held later this year.

VOV.VN -  The Vietnam Youth Federation on October 12 announced its social welfare projects to mark the 60th founding anniversary of the organization (October 15).

The Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Institute of Transport Science and Technology (ITSC) jointly held a conference in Danang on October 11 to review a project to develop landslide risk assessment technology along the transportation arteries in Vietnam. 

Malaysian police on October 12 rescued 26 Vietnamese women from a brothel in Bandar Botanic, Klang, Kuala Lumpur.

The Vietnamese Safe Farm Products and Food Week fair started on October 12 at the exhibition fair and economic-trade transaction area in Hoang Quoc Viet street, Cau Giay district, Hanoi.

A children’s protection programme will try to lower the proportion of disadvantaged children and those who are identified as vulnerable under the current rate of 4.3% from now to 2020, according to goals set by the HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs. 

The Korean–Vietnamese Peace Foundation presented 52 documents and items to Danang Museum on October 11.

Authorised agencies in Hau Giang province have been ordered to ramp up efforts to fight smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeiting in the remaining months of the year, especially on the threshold of the Lunar New Year holiday when purchasing power will surge. 

The head of the HCM City AIDS Prevention Centre has asked the Vietnam Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS to help the country reach the 90-90-90 targets set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS to help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.

Many health facilities in HCM City have run out of flu vaccines at a time when the peak influenza season is arriving.

VOV.VN - Contractors, engineers and workers are hurrying up constructing the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien underground metro station of the Vietnam’s first metro line stretching on 20km.

As China operates the first units of three nuclear power plants located as close as 50 kilometers from Vietnamese borders, Hanoi is seeking measures to detect and respond to possible future crises related to the facilities.

Lena Bui’s latest exhibit Flat Sunlight includes dozens of sketches featuring plants and vegetables at the Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, a space of art galleries and studios in HCM City.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Home Affairs has proposed banning all local public servants from smoking and consuming alcohol at workplace.