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.

Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) Nguyen Van Ngang attended a ceremony to inaugurate the Support Centre for Migrant Workers in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK) on October 10. 

Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai visited Hanoi Evangelical Church on October 11 in celebration of its centennial.

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh received 40 former Vietnamese teachers in Thailand on October 12.

Restaurants have reopened and people have returned for morning exercises around the West Lake.

A business forum between Ho Chi Minh City and Daegu city of the Republic of Korea (RoK) was held in the southern hub of Vietnam on October 11 with a view to spurring bilateral investment and trade. 

Nearly 30 cities and provinces in Vietnam have built and implemented their action plans on green growth, heard a seminar in Hanoi on October 11.

The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry is very concerned about information about a pregnant girl in China who is supposed a Vietnamese national, Deputy Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Pham Thu Hang said.

The central province of Nghe An aims to roll out the school milk programme on a larger scale from the 2017-2018 academic year in an effort to prevent malnutrition among pre-school and primary school kids. 

The Hanoi Railway Transport Joint Stock Company (Haraco) on October 11 launched the first ever non-stop cargo railway service between Hanoi’s Giap Bat station and Song Than station in the southern province of Binh Duong.

About 150 domestic and foreign scientists and scholars are gathering at an international seminar in the port city of Hai Phong to seek solutions to ensure the environmental and maritime security for a blue East Sea. 

VOV.VN - Over 100 Canadian Institutions will participate in the largest ever 8th Annual Canada Education Fairs in Vietnam.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Vietnam, on October 11, released a new partnership strategy with the country, which aims to help Vietnam implement its Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2016–2020 through boosting inclusive and sustainable growth.