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.

VOV.VN - On October 8, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc inspected food safety at a number of food processing establishments, street restaurants, markets, and supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh says pollution is a crime against the environment and calls on all major corporations to commit themselves towards environmental protection during their operations.

A natural disaster alert and watch system will be built at 13 coastal provinces and cities from Ha Tinh to Ba Ria – Vung Tau with 532 stations, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

A drill on responding to radiation and nuclear accidents was held for the first time in Da Nang on October 7 to examine the central city’s capacity of dealing with similar incidents. 

Two tonnes of goods suspected to be elephant tusks were discovered recently at Sai Gon Port by the Customs Office at the port and t he Police Department for Smuggling Prevention C74 under the Ministry of Public Security. 

VOV.VN - Five disadvantaged provinces with great number of ethnic people on October 7 got library trucks from the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism handed under the “Multimedia Mobile Library” project. 

VOV.VN - The “VOV Rendezvous – Cooperation for Development” program highlighting cooperation between the press and enterprises has been held recently in Ho Chi Minh City.

Unemployment rate in urban areas would be below 4% and the proportion of poor households would be reduced to 8.62-8.42% this year as according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Extremely rough seas are predicted for the north of the East Sea’s northern area as typhoon Aere can continue developing in the next few hours, said the National Centre of Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. 

Construction on the country’s biggest wastewater treatment station with a daily capacity of 270,000 cubic metres started in Thanh Liet commune, Thanh Tri district, Hanoi on October 7. 

Russian scholars, experts and students in Vietnamese, ASEAN and Asian Pacific studies gathered in a workshop on Vietnam’s reform experience. 

The Government Inspectorate announced on October 6 the inspection of the PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC).

VOV.VN - Vietnam has been elected to the Council of Administration of the Universal Postal Union, the main United Nation's decision-making body responsible for the development and cooperation of international postal services.

Ministries, agencies and localities should be on the highest alert for typhoon Aere, the sixth to hit Vietnam so far this year, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong.

Nearly 440,000 people in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have been covered by health insurance to date, representing 82% of the province’s population.

Provinces and cities across Vietnam are falling into heavy debt after spending big on developing rural areas into new-style rural zones.

Hanoi authorities have decided to delay opening nine more pedestrian areas in the Old Quarter in Hoan Kiem district.

Vietnamobile has cut its international call price down by two thirds.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has made its biggest-ever cash seizure of 112 million MR (US$28 million) following the arrest of two senior officials of the Sabah Water Department. 

Construction of the Vietnam-Germany University commenced in Ben Cat town in the southern province of Binh Duong on October 6, expected to become an excellent university in Vietnam with high ranking in the world. 

The Vietnam-Laos Friendship Organisation’s chapter in the central province of Quang Nam has set to foster the connectivity between Quang Nam and its neighbouring Lao province of Sekong province by encouraging exchanges and twin relations between their localities, especially border areas

The Independence Order and Friendship Order of Vietnam were presented to collectives and individuals at the Lao Ministry of Public Works and Transport on October 6 for their outstanding contributions to transport cooperation between the two countries.

Doctors and nurses from the Army Hospital 175 and the Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital offered free eye check-ups, surgeries and medicines to Cambodian residents in Phnom Penh on October 6. 

Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa and Son La provinces and Laos’s Houaphan province have signed a document featuring their partnership in preventing and combating HIV/AIDS in border areas in the future.

The Hanoi Book Fair 2016 with theme “Books and Integration” kicked off in Hanoi on October 6.

As many as 800,000 people in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap have got rid of illiteracy thanks to the “Summer Culture Light” Campaign, which was launched by local youth in 1996.

Agencies of the southern Tay Ninh province will move all wild monkeys living around the Cao Dai Great Temple to ensure safety for local people and visitors. 

Coastal provinces and cities from Quang Ninh in the north to Khanh Hoa in the central region have been told to prepare for Typhoon Aere, which has moved into northern East Sea, becoming the sixth storm hitting the East Sea this year.