Two over-200-year-old trees in the Lo Go – Xa Mat National Park in Tan Bien district, the southern province of Tay Ninh province, have been granted heritage status. 

Cambodia on September 6 launched a campaign to cut down on smoking in Siem Reap city in the country’s northwestern province of same name. 

Vietnam is among the countries having the highest rates of smokers, heard a conference in Hanoi on September 6 to announce the results of a survey on tobacco use of adults in Vietnam.

Mouthwashes said to be made from a range of natural herbs are being promoted in Vietnam as an effective aid to quit smoking, and claimed to be able to end users' nicotine craving in less than a week.

Vietnam’s renowned architect Vo Trong Nghia has won the prestigious 2016 Prince Claus Award, which honors visionary artists and organizations worldwide.

Ho Chi Minh City is set to host a number of international events, so the safety of foreign visitors to the southern metropolis should be absolutely guaranteed, municipal chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong has requested.

Thailand’s Ministry of Labour on September 6 said that it stepped up a campaign against illegal migrant labourers who work in wrong professions and violate the Foreign Employment Act. 

The Japanese Government will provide the Vietnamese Government with an JPY11 billionloan in the 2016 fiscal year to help improve socio-economic infrastructure and the competitiveness of the national economy. 

Mothers having under 2 year-old children in rural areas in the northern mountainous provinces of Thai Nguyen and Bac Giang have benefited from a nutrition communications project launched by the National Institute of Nutrition under the Ministry of Health from April 2014 to March 2017. 

The Delta city of Can Tho wants to cooperate with Canada in water management through the establishment of a research institute and human resources training in the field. 

Chairman of the National Assembly (NA)’s Ethnic Affairs Council Ha Ngoc Chien has called on the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to support Vietnam in organising training courses for deputies to the NA and all-level People’s Councils in ethnic minority-inhabited areas.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese national working in the Republic of Korea (RoK) has died in a blaze at his home 300 km south of Seoul, according to Korean Yonhap News Agency.

A new project was launched on September 5 to control HIV among young drug users in Vietnam with funding from Expertise France, a French agency for international technical expertise. 

The People’s Committee of northern coastal Quang Ninh province has agreed to put the domestic waste incinerator into operation. 

The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) on September 5 received the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Award for Developing Countries.

A plan to build a flyover connecting Tan Son Nhat Airport with Nguyen Van Troi and Hoang Van Thu streets has been submitted to the HCM City Department of Transport by an infrastructure joint venture.

VOV.VN - One of this year’s Miss Vietnam top five finalists – Dao Thi Ha – has joined with other youth volunteers in Hanoi to draw attention to a national cause— that blood donations save lives.

The national target programme for building new-style rural areas between 2016-2020 sets a goal of having at least 50% of communes meeting new-style rural area criteria by 2020.

VOV.VN - HelpAge Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2016 themed “The Economic Implication of Ageing” has been held in Hanoi to address ageing population issues in the region.

VOV.VN - The City of Osaka, Japan has signed an extension of its cooperation agreement to help Ho Chi Minh City transform itself into a low carbon city and an industrial base for the production of clean energy related products.

VOV.VN - French President François Hollande has toured the Hanoi Old Quarter, accompanied by Professor NGo Bao Chau along with eight other former Vietnamese nationals who studied at universities in France.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has been making updates to the national climate change and sea level rise scenario, under the Prime Minister’s Directive 09 dated March 12, 2016 on urgent measures to cope with salt water intrusion in the Mekong Delta. 

All 21 polluting factories in Dong Hung Thuan Ward in HCM City’s District 12 will be relocated or switch to other businesses before the end of the year, according to the city’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment. 

The “EU Scholarships Info Days” will be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on the first weekend of October, offering a chance for students to pursue higher education abroad. 

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The French software company Linagora and the Hanel DTT joint-venture will support the northern province of Quang Ninh in developing an e-government ( Egov) and training human resources. 

Thai authorities have stepped up surveillance after two pregnant women in Bangkok were found to have been infected with the Zika virus, which has been linked with microcephaly.

A Vietnamese-Russian beauty queen has been indicted for fraud after allegedly swindling a Vietnamese businessman out of VND16.5 billion (US$740,000).

Ho Chi Minh City is set to rebuild at least 237 of its oldest apartment buildings by 2020, resulting in better safety and convenience for residents.

The French embassy and the French Development Agency (AFD) will provide a funding worth 120,000 EUR for a technical assistance project on assessing the status of the air environment in Hanoi.