A seminar discussing how to improve hospital quality management took place in Ho Chi Minh City on September 12-13. 

A wide range of activities will be held to mark the 60th anniversary of the Vietnam Youth Federation (VYF) (October 15, 1956-2016), the VYF Central Committee said at a press conference in Hanoi on September 12.

Twenty officials from the Lao Red Cross (LRC) are attending a three-month training course in Hanoi as part of the cooperation agreement signed between the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) and its Lao counterpart.

The Hanoi People’s Court has accepted the request for extraditing eight Indonesian pirates from Vietnam to Malaysia for trial. 

VOV.VN -Dedicated to serving the community and fostering a caring culture, actress and former Tourism Ambassador Ly Nha Ky recently cooked up the perfect recipe to spread love and care this Mid-Autumn Festival.

Thousands of lives have been put at risk due to many newly built high rise apartment blocks in Hanoi that fail to meet fire safety standards.

Advanced water-saving irrigation methods have been applied to around 144,800 hectares of dryland crops nationwide, according to the Directorate of Water Resources under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). 

Residents, soldiers and businesses in Ho Chi Minh City raised more than VND40 billion (US$1.8 million) for the “For national sea, islands – For the country’s front line” fund at an artistic exchange on September 11 night.

VOV.VN -When working as World Bank Country Director in Vietnam from 2009 to 2016, Victoria Kwakwa has recorded a number of unforgettable moments in the country. Let's check it out!

Vietnam’s vocational education system must undergo reform to produce workers who can compete with their counterparts in other countries, the head of Institute of Vocational Education Studies has said.

HCM City’s steering committee for the smart city project hosted a meeting on September 9 to approve a draft plan of the project, which aims to develop the southern metropolis into a smart city.

Parents of LGBT (Lesbian – Gay – Bisexual and Transgender) children often journey a long, painstaking way, sometimes including years of denial, before fully supporting them in the pursuit of their true selves.

A low pressure zone intensified into a tropical depression on Sunday afternoon with heavy rains forecast to drench central Vietnam.

Indonesia will repatriate Vietnamese fishermen who were caught to accidentally fish in its waters by sea transport in the Natuna sea area.

A writing contest about Vietnam was launched during a press conference at the Hanoi-Moscow Trade Centre, Moscow, Russia on September 11. 

Ho Chi Minh City is willing to collaborate with Vientiane in socio-economics and culture to strengthen the two cities’ relations, stated Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem. 

Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai met with Vietnamese expatriates in Russia on September 11.

Singapore discovered 14 new cases of Zika virus as of September 10, bringing the total number of locally transmitted cases of the virus to 318, according the country’s Health Ministry (MOH) and the National Environment Agency (NEA).

VOV.VN - Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han on September 11 joined children at the Hanoi-based Viet Duc Hospital in celebration of the Mid-Autumn (Full Moon) Festival as part of her charitable activities.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City are restoring a pagoda dating back more than 200 years, as it has been seriously degraded over years, with over US$2 million allocated for the work.

Around 22,000 new cases of lung cancer are recorded every year in Vietnam, where the disease is ranked among the top causes of death, doctors said at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on September 10.

The 21st century workplace is experiencing swift changes due to globalisation and technology. As this phenomenon continues, Jaideep Iyengar, commercial HR lead for Asia at Monsanto Company, spoke with VIR’s Nam Phuong on new competencies required for modern employees.

As many as 35,000 poor households in the rural areas of five provinces will gain access to hygienic sanitation by building new latrines at their houses over the next two years, a recent conference heard.

Tran Ngoc Quyen, former Vietnamese Counselor in Germany, offered to the Ho Chi Minh Museum more than 100 documents and books in German and Bulgarian languages featuring the life of President Ho Chi Minh on the occasion of National Day (September 2).

Ho Chi Minh City’s Can Gio outlying district is preparing for its annual Nghinh Ong Festival, to be held next week to show fishermen’s respect for the whale and gratitude for a bumper catch.

The moon is getting full and the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching so close to every corner. The festival is traditionally for children but now, adults also wait for it.

A delegation of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs led by Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Hong Nam, who is also head of the committee, visited Canada’s big cities from September 7-10 to learn about the Vietnamese community in the localities.

VOV.VN - Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh and representatives from the National Fund for Vietnamese Children on September 11 presented gifts to unfortunate children in central Quang Tri province on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

VOV.VN - The 86th festival of  L'Humanite newspaper, the organ of the French Communist Party recently opened in La Courneuve park in Paris.

Doctors at Children’s Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City have said they will perform an operation to separate two conjoined twins next month.