The Rex Hotel in downtown HCMC will play host to a free-admission exhibition of commemorative stamps of Thailand and Vietnam on September 24-25 on the lobby level.

More than US$67 million has been poured into the central province of Quang Tri to help it clear bombs and mines left from the war over the past two decades.

Complaints and denunciations sent to state administrative agencies have tended downward in 2016 compared to last year, Deputy Inspector General of the Government Inspectorate Dang Cong Huan reported. 

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha said the textbooks for teaching English at Vietnamese schools will be textbooks of a certain country that will be ‘localized’ to fit Vietnamese conditions, rather than ones compiled by Vietnam.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has included a provision to raise the retirement age in the draft amendments of the Labour Law.

Experts have voiced their concern about Chinese phone products in the domestic market, warning that there are latent risks about information insecurity.

Permanent deputy head of the Steering Committee for the Northwestern Region Hau A Lenh and Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien signed a cooperation agreement in Hanoi on September 23, with a view to improving health care and preventive medicine in the region between now and 2020.

Vietnamese health experts and those from the World Health Organisation and universities in the US, China and Thailand shared experiences in medical education and training trends in the world at a workshop in Hanoi on September 23.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Embassy in Laos and the Laotian Defense Ministry will co-host an exhibition on the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos from 1961 to 1975.

Vietnam has made the biggest jump this year to claim 11th place in the world’s friendliest country list, according to The InterNations Survey which interviewed more than 14,000 expats living in 67 countries around the world. 

A conference was held in the central province of Nghe An on September 23 in response to World Rabies Day 2016 (September 28). 

The Fifth Asian Beach Games (ABG 5) International Communications Centre (ICC) was inaugurated in the central city of Da Nang on September 23.

The Vietnam - Republic of Korea (RoK) friendship village in Vung Liem town, Vung Liem district, Vinh Long province has become a venue accommodating local disadvantaged people and helping them secure stable livelihoods.

The Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV) group has called on member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to vote against Swaziland’s proposal to legalise the rhino horn trade. 

VOV.VN - Samsung Electronics has partnered with the Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy to deploy its pioneering Smart Classroom solutions for training medical professionals.

The 90th founding anniversary of the Cao Dai religion was celebrated in Ho Chi Minh City on September 23. 

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Post Corporation has unveiled it will issue a set of stamps on September 24 to promote the contribution of sport to peace and to highlight the 5th Asian Beach Games.

VOV.VN - This year’s British Council New Directions in English Language and Assessment conference will be held in Hanoi on October 13-14. 

VOV.VN - The Danang International Firework Competition (DIFC) is scheduled for April 29 - June 30, 2017. 

Not satisfied with over US$25,000 in gold, they went back to the same shop to try again.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has affirmed the country’s all-out effort to ensure people’s right to development while addressing the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Declaration on the right to development.

Many shipments have to go through one-week technical checks which have not proved effective.

State management of food safety and hygiene should be re-organised as it remains ineffective in monitoring unsafe food sold in the market, experts have said. 

The Prime Minister has recently agreed to advance Ú$88.7 million to help the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and localities implement projects to tackle droughts and saline intrusion.

A company collected over VND230 billion (over US$10 million) through service message charges from 94,000 mobile service users in Vietnam over two years, but the customers did not know about it.

The source of the unpleasant odor wafting through the southern end of Ho Chi Minh City has been confirmed to originate from rubbish buried at a major waste treatment zone.

The banning of motorbikes in major Vietnamese cities to combat worsening traffic congestion is once again on the table after Hanoi’s Department of Transport has unveiled  its plan to restrict non-resident motorbikes  from entering the capital by 2025.

A medical research publicised recently in Singapore showed that low-income people in the Southeast Asian country face the risk of getting diabetes because of obesity. 

The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine, the Ukraine-Vietnam Friendship Association and nearly 800 students of secondary school 251 named after President Ho Chi Minh in Kiev attached paper doves to a map of Vietnam carrying a wish for a world of peace. 

An appeal court in Hanoi on September 22 upheld the five-year imprisonment sentence for blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh, on the charge of “abusing the rights to democracy and freedom to infringe on the interests of the State and rights and interests of organisations and citizens”.