Sections of Sai Gon Bridge, one of the five bridges of metro route No. 1 Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien in Ho Chi Minh City, were joined on September 30. 

A road map for turning Phu Quoc island offshore southern Kien Giang Province into a smart city was unveiled on the island on September 29. 

VOV.VN - More than 1.16 million people were unemployed in the third quarter of this year, 40,000 more than those in the second quarter, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).

With the adoption of cutting-edge technology at a comparatively low cost, Professor Mai Trong Khoa - Director of the Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Center, at Bach Mai Hospital - and colleagues have saved many cancer patients “at death’s door”. 

VOV.VN - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel warning, advising pregnant women to consider postponing unimportant travel to 11 Southeast Asian countries where there is high risk of Zika virus infection.

Participants at a conference on governmental cybersecurity heard an urgent message: ensuring information security for each Governmental body is essential, especially as Vietnam is developing an e-Government infrastructure.

The 53 ethnic minority groups in Vietnam had a total population of 13.39 million, accounting for 14.6% of the country’s population (91.71 million) as by July 1, 2015, a survey revealed. 

Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island is facing overwhelming growth in local tourism against the backdrop of a rapid decline in clean water.

Continual downpours since the beginning of this week have revealed poor drainage systems in several parking basements in Ho Chi Minh City, leading to flooded vehicles and upset owners who have yet to receive the appropriate compensation for their damaged property.

Nestlé Vietnam announced its participation in the national programme "Enhancing the Stature and Endurance of Vietnamese People for the period 2011 – 2030” on September 26, on the occasion of Nestlé’s 150th anniversary.

Vietnam is facing great environmental challenges due to a widespread disregard of the law, poor-quality environmental impact assessments, and overlapping regulations in the laws on Environmental Protection and Investment. 

Two Tibetan bears which were illegally kept in captivity in southern An Giang province were given to the Hon Me Rescue Centre of southern Kien Giang province on September 29. 

Many localities nationwide experienced environmental degradation during the 2011-2015 period, according to a report released by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) in Hanoi on September 29.

The fifth International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis, Biotechnology and Diagnostics (Analytica Vietnam 2017) will be held in Hanoi from March 29-31, 2017.

More than 91% of interviewees expressed satisfaction about ID paper issue service in Hanoi, the highest rate among six public administrative services subject to a recent survey of the municipal People’s Committee. 

A school milk programme was launched nationwide on September 28, aiming at providing school-children with free milk to improve their health and physique.

The Lilama 2 Vocational College in Long Thanh district, the southern province of Dong Nai has developed two occupational standards meeting the requirements of Germany. 

Ho Chi Minh City is speeding up the construction of metro route No.1, Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien, according to the city’s Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR). 

Vietnam’s achievements after 30 years of reform attracted the attentions of Italian delegates at a recent workshop in Turin, the capital city of Italy’s Piedmont region.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Association of the Elderly has organized a host of activities to take care of and promote the role of senior citizens, in response to International Day of Older Persons and the Action Month for the Elderly in October.

VOV.VN - Japan Ambassador to Vietnam Fukada Hiroshi, who is nearing the end of his tenure, has been honoured by the Vietnam government with the insignia For Peace and Friendship Among Nations. 

Scientists and environmentalists have highly rated the microbiological method of the Republic of Korea to detoxify soil contaminated with Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin sprayed by the US during the war in Vietnam.

Authorities of Da Nang announced a strategy to promote urban resilience at a ceremony in the central city on September 28.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese students showcased their technology and communication skills at the recent Asean Skills Competition (September 24-26) in Kuala Lumpur, netting third place.

VOV.VN - Honeywell on September 28 announced the award of 15 scholarships to local university students aimed at helping Vietnam tertiary education to re-energize interest in pursuing careers in engineering.

The Binh Duong provincial chapter of the Vietnam-Republic of Korea (RoK) Friendship Association convened the first Congress for the 2016-2021 tenure in the southern province on September 28. 

Chairman of the Japan Federation of Transport Workers’ Unions Toshihiko Sumino has expressed his wish to deepen exchanges with the Vietnam National Union of Communication and Transport Workers and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL).

A defence attaché delegation from the Canadian Embassy in Vietnam, headed by Deputy Attaché Jean Jobin, visited Military Hospital 175 under Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense in Ho Chi Minh City on September 28. 

Education and training play an important role in raising public awareness of human trafficking, heard a seminar on educating women and girls about human trafficking in Geneva on September 27.

Mobile users in Vietnam have expressed their outrage at losing money on unwanted services they have not signed up for.