International volunteers from Habitat for Humanity have joined the “Vietnam Big Build 2016” project to build houses for 20 poor families in Tam Nong district, northern Phu Tho province. 

A 19-century Buddhist statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes - a treasure of the Me So Pagoda in the northern province of Hung Yen’s Me So Commune, Van Giang District, was stolen on October 1.

Green trees have been mentioned in poetry, painting, music and have became a special feature of Hanoi. 

VOV.VN - The Tien Giang People’s Committee has approved a five-year action plan (2011-2016) of French non-governmental organization, the Pousse-Pousse Association, which is allowed to operate in the province by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

VOV.VN - Heavy rains occurred in Ho Chi Minh City from 2:00 to 10:00 a.m on Monday, October 3 badly affected local lives.

A conference to accelerate the implementation of a German-funded water project was held in Dong Van district, the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on October 3. 

Michael Waibel, leader of some leading urban development projects at the geography faculty at Hamburg University and an expert with 20 years studying urban areas in Vietnam, will launch a book titled “HCM City - Mega City in early October in Vietnam.

Doctors in the central city of Hue have successfully removed a 1.7kg tumor from a 20-day-old baby girl.

About 6,055 migrants were rescued on October 3 as they tried to reach Europe on about 40 boats, one of the highest numbers in a single day, Italy's coast guard said.

Nine globally endangered species have been discovered at Phong Dien Nature Reserve, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, through camera traps. 

An infrastructure development project in response to climate change “CNV 192” funded by the French Development Agency (AFD) was launched at a seminar in the northern province of Ninh Binh on September 30.

A delegation of the Committee for Ethnic Affairs had a working session with a delegation of the Cambodian Ministry of Cults and Religions to foster cooperation in ethnic affairs in Ho Chi Minh City on October 3.

Residents and industrial clusters should be responsible for treating their waste instead of relying on the Government’s budget, said Hoang Duong Tung, deputy director general of the Vietnam Environmental Administration under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. 

Measures to ensure cross-border water resources security and adapt to climate change were discussed at the fifth international workshop and exhibition on water in Hanoi on October 3.

Experts from Vietnam and the European Union (EU) shared experience in ensuring human rights while implementing the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT) during a workshop held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on October 3.

Construction on a waste treatment project of Greenity Hau Giang Company was launched in the southern Hau Giang province’s Chau Thanh district on October 2.

VOV.VN - Medical workers are increasingly taking the opportunity to learn, practice their profession and earn high-pay in Japan under an intergovernmental program, says the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

The Ho Chi Minh City Red Cross Chapter in the last five years gave more than VND1.46 trillion (nearly US$66 million) to various charity and humanitarian activities, up 224% compared to the previous five-year period. 

Twelve more communes in central Nghe An province have been qualified as new rural areas so far this year, bringing the total communes of their kind to 117.

VOV.VN - Thousands of small dead fish have washed ashore on October 1-2 at West Lake in Hanoi, the start of a fish kill that locals are saying is one of the worst they can remember.

An overpowering smell keeps attacking the senses of thousands of people in Ho Chi Minh City, with no end in sight.

Hanoi is set to meet this year’s target of 236 communes meeting all criteria under the new style rural area building programme. 

Cooperation in agricultural education between Vietnam and Belgium has helped improve the capacity of Vietnamese agriculture lecturers, heard a recent event in the Belgian city of Gembloux. 

VOV.VN - The Australian Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has awarded 98 scholarships worth VND27.5 billion (US$1.2 million) to prospective students and those studying in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as part of activities marking 15 years of operation.

VOV.VN - Many foreign guests have said they spend only VND8,000- VND10,000 savouring a big glass of draft beer in Vietnam together with their friends in hot weather

More than one million Vietnamese people are not having enough food to eat, according to a new official report, which has blamed severe drought and the recent toxic spill scandal for worsening the nation's poverty problem.

Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have succeeded in removing a giant tumor from the pleural cavity of a female patient.

Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi have seized more than 300 kilograms of tusks, allegedly belonging to elephants, shipped from Laos Airport in Nigeria on September 29.

Misconceptions about modern contraceptives are causing unexpected pregnancies and abortions, a recent conference organised by the HCM City Women Magazine and Bayer Vietnam to mark World Contraception Day in HCM City.

Indonesia on October 2 at the Soekarno Hatta International Airport repatriated 51 Vietnamese fishermen who were detained within four months in Natuna island for illegal fishing in Indonesia’s seas.