Black boxes will be installed on all garbage trucks in Ho Chi Minh City next month so the city can supervise trash management

Hanoi honoured nine outstanding locals together with 961 role models in various fields in 2016 at a ceremony on October 10 on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the city’s liberation day. 

HCM City and Binh Duong, where the two latest Zika infection cases were detected, have been urged to take urgent measures to prevent the virus from spreading among the community. 

The southernmost province of Ca Mau will implement 10 emergency projects to prevent and surmount the consequences of drought and saline intrusion, according to the provincial People’s Committee. 

Parlamentnilisty.cz, an e-newspaper of the Czech Republic, has recently run an article saying Vietnam pursues consistent guidelines and policies of respecting and ensuring the right to freedom of religions and beliefs, as well as non-religious freedom of ethnic groups.

Treatment for urinary kidney stones, a common health problem in countries with a tropical climate, has become more advanced in Vietnam, but surgery is often required because patients wait too long to visit the hospital, according to doctors at Binh Dan Hospital in HCM City.

The health insurance coverage will reach around 79% by the end of this year compared to the set target of 76 percent, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien reported at a meeting of the National Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs on October 8.

Scholarships were presented to 202 standout first-year students in Mekong delta localities who have been living in difficult circumstances.

The Vietnamese Students’ Association in the Republic of Korea (VSAK) hosted the 12th Vietnam students’ day in Seoul on October 9 in celebration of 24 years of friendship between the two countries.

Vietnamese painter Nguyen Du from Vietnam Post won first prize in the Universal Postal Union (UPU)'s competition to design a new International Reply Coupon (IRC). 

Authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang intend to mobilise nearly VND3.3 trillion (around US$148.5 million) from all sectors to realise its sustainable poverty reduction goals.

VOV.VN - Hanoi’s Department of Tourism and the Vietnam-Hanoi Tourism Joint Stock Company (Vietnamtourism) have offered free tours of craft streets for tourists on the occasion of the inauguration of a Center for Tourist Information and Support at 28 Hang Dau street.

Thanks to creativity and the spirit of environment protection, high school student members of the Relight project are turning used plastic items into beautiful lamps.

A proposal to allow Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to set retail prices has been criticised for granting excessive power to the national utility as well as the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

A total of 14 Vietnamese women and girls have been abducted and sold in China's Yunnan Province since 2011.

SOS Children’s Villages Vietnam is calling for donations to the “Jar of Love - No children should grow up alone” campaign.

The average expenditure for science and technology of Vietnamese enterprises is only 0.02% of their total annual spending. 

Authorities in Nha Trang on October 8 discussed a plan proposed by a French architect to expand the coastline of the resort city.

Hospitals in southern Vietnam have recorded a surge in the number of children being admitted over respiratory diseases, most prominently pneumonia, in recent months.

A charity gala on October 8 night raised nearly 20 billion VND (900,000 USD) for the charity fund A healthy heart for you, which sponsors operations for poor children suffering from heart diseases. 

Men who grew up in rural areas usually seek office jobs, avoiding the hard manual work their parents did. 

VOV.VN - Re-educating convicted felons is a special education activity to help people in prison improve their awareness, attitude, and behavior in preparation for re-integrating into the community. 

VOV.VN - Vietnam – Japan Friendship Association opened its 2nd congress in Ho Chi Minh City on October 9.

The ban would be impossible to implement due mainly to undeveloped and insufficient public transport in Hanoi.

Two people, one from Ho Chi Minh City and the other from neighbouring Binh Duong province, have been tested positive with Zika virus, according to the Department of Preventive Medicine (DPM) under the Ministry of Health. 

An exhibition introducing products and services accessible to everyone, especiallypeople with blindness, opened on October 7. 

The construction of a new national exhibition and fair centre began in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district on October 8. 

Appeals related to land issues occur due to inadequate and unclear land withdrawals, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at an online conference on receiving public opinions in Hanoi on October 7.

VOV.VN -  Hanoi’s Department of Tourism and the Vietnam-Hanoi Tourism Joint Stock Company have inaugurated a Center for Tourist Information and Support at 28 Hang Dau street. 

VOV.VN -  100 maps, atlases, and documents are on exhibit in Kon Tum province, as historical and legal evidence of Vietnam’s indisputable sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos.