Despite a law banning public smoking since 2013, smokers in Vietnam have shown been unwilling to obey the regulation.

Noise pollution, especially from music at shops and restaurants, has become an alarming problem in Vietnam’s major cities in recent years.

Singapore will intensify measures to fight money laundering and terrorism financing in response to the latest warnings of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

Indonesia evacuated more than 1,000 domestic and foreign tourists on September 28 after a volcano eruption of Mount Barujari in the central province of West Nusa Tenggara.

A workshop on sustainable social development in Vietnam and Japan’s experience was held in Hanoi on September 28.

The central city of Danang has launched a contest to design a bridge and tunnel through the Han River.

The northern province of Dien Bien will have the first parish after the provincial People’s Committee issued a decision allowing the Bishop Office of Hung Hoa Diocese to set up the parish. 

The Foreign Ministry, in collaboration with other ministries, held a meeting in Hanoi on September 28 to provide the media with information about human rights in the country. 

Agricultural restructuring should be in line with the Mekong Delta region’s planning, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said at a conference on agricultural restructuring, land, irrigation and new rural areas. 

Many farmers who depended on catching fish and other aquatic creatures during the flood season in the Mekong Delta have switched to other jobs since the delta has not seen major flooding in recent years. 

World Vision International (WVI) has been awarded the Friendship Order of the President of Vietnam for its active contributions to local poverty reduction and child care. 

VOV.VN - The future of healthcare in Vietnam is rapidly changing, led by enterprising new companies entering the segment anxious to put new technologies to work in innovative, novel and amazing ways.

Singapore kicked off the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) exercise “Deep Sabre 2016” on September 27 at the Changi Command and Control Center. 

VOV.VN - Hundreds of Vietnamese fishermen have filed claims seeking compensation from a Taiwanese steel company that acknowledged its toxic chemicals caused a massive fish kill, reports US Time magazine

Border guards in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang arrested three men suspected of running a human trafficking ring. 

The number of domestic violence cases reported in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre dropped from 642 in 2012 to 187 in 2015, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The Vietnam Fisheries Association (VFA) has proposed building a map of the sea floor for fishing in the four central provinces affected by the Formosa environmental incident.

The need to accelerate flood-prevention projects has become more urgent than ever as HCM City mobilised workers and pumps to remove water from flooded streets following a historic downpour on September 26 evening that inundated the city.

The risk of infectious disease in Vietnam is still high, with cases of infection likely to increase from now to the end of the year, according to the Ministry of Health. 

VOV.VN -  VOV President Nguyen The Ky received the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Vietnam, Anar Lachin Oglu Imanov, at VOV’s headquarters in Hanoi on September 27.

Hundreds of fishermen traveled by bus to Ha Tinh to demand the Taiwanese firm to cough up for the damage it has caused.

VOV.VN - Miss Communications Phung Bao Ngoc Van took part in charity activities on September 27 to help disadvantaged people in DuK’mal Commune, Krong Ana District, Dak Lak Province.

As the ongoing debate on a possible motorbike ban in Vietnamese cities picks up momentum, a traffic expert has weighed in with his assertion that cars are contributing more to the problem than motorbikes.

Police in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh have apprehended a suspect in the murder of four family members last weekend.

Vietnam has been considered one of the world’s top consumers of alcoholic beverages with 77% of its men drinking beer and other kinds of alcohol, according to a recent survey.

Scientists from the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang city, the southern central province of Khanh Hoa, have built artificial reefs to aid coral recovery off the coast of Bang Thang cape in Nha Trang Bay. 

The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai is exerting every effort to minimise the impacts of climate change.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan is working closely with Japanese agencies and relevant units to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of a Vietnamese citizen who recently died in the host country, according to the Foreign Ministry’s Press Information Department on September 27.

VOV.VN - An exhibition titled “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa, Truong Sa – Historical and Legal Evidence”  opened in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on September 27 aiming to affirm the country’s sovereignty over the two archipelagoes.

The World Bank in Vietnam on September 27 announced the Vietnam Development Report 2016 themed “Transforming Vietnamese Agriculture: Gaining More from Less,” detailing challenges and opportunities facing the sector.