Outstanding students and athletes of the northern province of Ninh Binh were honoured by the Dinh Bo Linh study and talent encouragement fund on September 18. 

Those in Vietnam who are fond of dishes made from goat breasts should be cautious as they may consume those of the pigs, while health risks are imminent due to poor quality.

The Mother Tongue - based Bilingual Education project funded by UNICEF in Vietnam has proven effective, benefiting teachers, pupils, and education managers in the beneficiary localities, heard a conference in Hanoi on September 16.

Hanoi will develop luxury hotels in the capital city’s prime locations in the next five years, as part of its efforts to promote tourism.

Vietnam expects a place in Top Three at the 11th ASEAN Skills Competition (ASC) which will take place at Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang of Malaysia from September 19-29.

Fall in Ho Chi Minh City means a whole lot of pollution with a smattering of Southeast Asian haze.

There is a team of maintenance workers who live away from family and civilization for months on end to keep watch over the country’s lighthouses and sovereignty on the East Sea.

Starting the new school year, fourth-graders from the Hanoi Academy primary school had a chance to join in some very interesting and meaningful activities: making handbags from old newspapers and growing black-bean plants in pretty colourful pots made from plastic bottles.

Pua district of Nan province in Thailand has opened an OTOP village to sell community products and ready themselves for business ahead of the tourist season.

Thai Minister Attached to the Prime Minister’s Office ML Panadda Diskul has urged civil servants to serve as role models for national unity.

A global fund has raised over US$12.9 billion from international donors as part of a campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by 2030, conference organizers said on September 17.

The Hanoi administration has announced it will pave 936 streets with natural stone in 12 districts across the city.

More than 2,000 people in the central province of Quang Ngai participated in a drill in response to tsunami in Tinh Khe commune, Quang Ngai city. 

The Ministry of Public Security on September 16 issued an arrest warrant domestically and internationally for Trinh Xuan Thanh, 50, former Chairman of PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC).

The Ministry of Home Affairs announced the establishment of the Vietnam international law association as a socio-occupational organisation in Hanoi on September 17.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam-Armenia Friendship Association (VAFA) held a cultural exchange on September 17 in Hanoi for Vietnamese alumni from Armenian Universities to mark the 25th anniversary of the former soviet republic’s independence.

The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long has proposed the Government’s Committee for Ethnic Affairs expand forms of assistance to ethnic minority groups. 

New-style cooperative models should be created to boost agricultural restructuring, thus helping increase farmers’ their income, says President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Police in Long An have arrested four suspects in the killing of a market management officer on an anti-tobacco smuggling mission in the southern province on September 16.

VOV.VN - Tropical storm Rai has left at least 12 people dead and more than five others missing as raging flood waters caused by torrential rains have swept away homes, bridges and roads as if they were toys.

The Ministry of Public Health has instructed all provincial public health departments nationwide to be vigilant against Zika virus. A Zika patient must be diagnosed immediately in order to prevent the virus from spreading.

The Thai National Saving Fund (NSF) is currently putting a lot of efforts in promoting its saving campaign for members of the public who are 60-year old and up. The campaign accepts applicants only until the 25th of September. 

A Vietnamese multi-sector conglomerate plagued by financial woes over its loss-making agricultural arm has announced that it may sell nearly half of its massive rubber plantation to Chinese partners in the event its proposed debt restructuring plan falls though.

Ho Chi Minh City authorities have proposed more than VND1.8 trillion (US$80.6 million) in improvement projects aimed at dealing with inundation at the city’s major airport and congestion and its entrance.

Vietnam’s first waste-to-energy system capable of generating 1,930kW of power by treating 75 tonnes of industrial waste per day was launched in Hanoi’s suburban district of Soc Son on September 16. 

Customers should stop using Samsung Galaxy Note 7 immediately, said the Vietnam Competition Authority under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. 

A delegation from the Vietnam Maritime Administration visited the crew abroad three foreign ships which have been abandoned by their owner – China-based Jumbo Sino Investment Development Ltd., on September 15-16. 

The General Association of Vietnamese Cambodians (GAVC) convened its second congress for the 2016-2021 tenure in Phnom Penh on September 16, with the participation of 126 delegates representing members in 25 cities and provinces across the country.

Hanoi may not be able to fulfil six out of 22 targets of this year, including four economic targets, according to deputy head of the municipal Department of Planning and Investment Tran Ngoc Nam.

Officials and economic experts have emphasized regional connectivity as the key to sustainable economic development in the southeast region.