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.

A new project was launched by Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry with assistance from World Bank and Denmark on October 5 to improve forest management and help out communities living near forest areas. 

Five foreign insurance companies providing life and non-life insurance as well as insurance broking have been discovered to be committing a set of violations.

Sixty-one wild Java pangolins (Manis javanica) have been handed over to Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) by Thai Binh province’s Police Department.

The HCM City administration has instructed competent agencies to provide all assistance to a company undertaking flood prevention works to ensure there are no delays.

Chairman of Ninh Binh People’s Committee Dinh Van Dien Ninh Binh said that the province is determined to exceed social-economic development goals it set in the beginning of the year. 

Vietnamese and Swedish experts discussed measures to promote sustainable development on the basis of innovation and creativity at a seminar in Hanoi on October 5.

Construction work on extending Ring Road 3, the lifeline of Hanoi, started this morning. The project is estimated to cost more than VND3.1 trillion (US$137.8 million) from the city’s budget.

As many as 71 outstanding students studying at universities and colleges in Vietnam’s southern localities were granted scholarships each worth 216 EUR from the German State of Hessen at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on October 5.

About 52,000 out of 140,000 companies operating in Hanoi have joined the local social insurance network, bringing the local insurance coverage to 78%. 

Air pollution in Hanoi reportedly reached dangerous levels on October 5, raising concerns.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam-Republic of Korea Friendship Association in Thai Nguyen province (VIKOFAT) and Korea Food for the Hungry International (KFHI) on October 5 signed a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of the Vietnam-RoK Cooperation Centre (VCC) in Thai Nguyen.

The company requires each team of 60 workers to churn out 77 teddy bears every hour, a task they call 'impossible.'

The man is at the center of a probe into nearly $150 million of losses at a state firm.

Pensioners are living out their final years in sickness and without social welfare.

The minimum costs of quarantine, food safety checks and quality control that importers had to bear were more than VND1.63 trillion (over US$73.38 million) last year, heard a recent workshop in HCMC.

The authority of HCMC has written to the Government seeking permission to select an independent foreign consulting agency to monitor the implementation and quality of a big-ticket anti-flood project.

Ho Chi Minh City Police has apprehended a Vietnamese undergraduate who was found responsible for the death of an Australian company director in July, local newswire VnExpress has reported.

Experts from ministries and the World Bank discussed the contents of a project on building a databse serving climate change adaptation in the Mekong Delta region at a workshop in Hanoi on October 5. 

A conference took place on October 5 to collect feedback on the draft regional guidelines for public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA).

Outstanding farmers across the country who made great contributions to agriculture and the new-style rural area building programme will be honoured at a ceremony in Hanoi on October 14. 

The Vietnamese Government pledges to eradicate illegal wild animal trading and make every effort to combat all wildlife-related crimes, a Vietnamese official has said.

Many industrial workers face early retirement caused by occupational health conditions, according to a National Institute of Labour Protection study. 

Life-long learning is indispensable, especially given the rapid technological innovation and longer human longevity, deputy head of the Ministry of Education and Training’s Department of Continuing Education Nguyen Cong Hinh told the Vietnam News Agency in a recent interview.

The Prime Minister has issued a decision recognising 11 communes and towns in the southern province of Soc Trang as island communes.

A 320kg bomb was deactivated by sappers in Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, on October 5.

Hanoi police have launched an investigation into two Chinese nationals and their alleged swindling to appropriate assets in Vietnam.