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.

Besides the pursuit of knowledge, Tran Anh Linh, 17, a high school student in the US, also learns in order to get involved in social work.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Battambang city of Cambodia recently organised an event in celebration of the 71st August Revolution (August 19) and National Day of Vietnam (September 2). 

The Vietnam-France locality cooperation conference, which will take place in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from September 14-16, will focus on five big topics with the climate change as a special one. 

VOV.VN - Chubb Life Vietnam has announced its continued support of four primary schools in Central Vietnam that originally had been constructed with funds donated by the company during the four-year period 2011 to 2014.

VOV.VN - Canadian Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion on September 5 held a dialogue with an estimated 250 students from Hanoi universities at which he discussed the security implications of climate change.

The planted forest area in Vietnam reached 128,800 hectares in the first eight months of this year, a year-on-year decline of 8.7 percent, due to floods in northern mountainous provinces in August, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

The Southern Power Corporation has urged contractors to hasten the construction of two projects to bring electricity to Lai Son and Hon Nghe island communes in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang in September.

VOV.VN - Canadian Foreign Minister Stéphan Dion announced on September 5 that Canada will contribute US$15 million to assist Vietnam small businesses in reducing short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs).

The Cham Islands, 18km off the coast of Hoi An city, gained access to the national power grid on September 3, after a one year construction project to install a 15.5km sub-marine cable system at a total cost of US$22.7 million. 

Teachers and students in the central coastal provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue, which were affected by the recent environmental incident, have received financial assistance worth over VND2 billion (US$90,000) from the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL).

Mosquito-borne dengue fever is developing in a complex fashion in Phu Quoc and Kien Hai island districts in southern Kien Giang province as the rainy weather is favouring the growth of mosquitoes.

VOV.VN - The new school year has gotten off to great start on September 5 with government officials visiting students nationwide for what turned out to be, by early afternoon, an otherwise routine first day of classes.   

The Prime Minister has approved the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction in 2016-2020, which aims to cut the rate of poverty among households nationwide by 1- 1.5 percent each year based on the multi-dimensional poverty criteria. 

The consequences of Agent Orange(AO) /dioxin, sprayed by US troops during the war in Vietnam, were highlighted in an article on the website ArgenPress of Argentina on September 4.

A total of 4,474 individuals renounced their Vietnamese citizenships in 2015, according to data released by the Ministry of Justice last month. 

VOV.VN - On September 5, many schools across Vietnam launched the 2016-2017 academic year.

Twenty-seven more Zika cases were recorded in Singapore on September 4, bringing the total infections to 242 since the mosquito-borne virus was found a week ago.

Authorities in Malaysia have arrested 12 traffickers, including eight Vietnamese nationals, and seized hundreds of parts of highly endangered species following raids on two transnational wildlife criminal networks in the country.

Advanced screening technology will be used and monitoring expanded to outpatient medical stations.

A series of new policies are coming into effect this month, including regulations relating to foreign diplomats and policies to support poor students, raise awareness of legal assistance and tighten State control of chemical substances. 

President Tran Dai Quang asked the educational sector to continue the effective implementation of the Party and State’s policy on basically and comprehensively reforming education and training. 

A Singaporean senior official said on September 4 that the country’s Ministry of Health (MOH) is reviewing the regulation of isolating patients with high risk of Zika infection. 

The Malaysian Ministry of Health on August 3 announced that the first locally-transmitted Zika patient died of heart disease complications. 

Students of the University of Buenos Aires’ legal department were introduced about Vietnam’s history, culture and socio-economic development at a talk on September 3.

At least 38 people were killed and 28 were injured in Afghanistan after a fuel tanker collided with a passenger bus, causing a massive explosion, local officials said on September 4.

VOV.VN - Danang City led Vietnamese provinces and cities in Provincial Administrative Reform (PAR Index) in 2015 for the fifth consecutive time. 

Some provisions of the Labor Code have placed difficulties on enterprises, especially those with a high number of workers.