VOV.VN - Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has hailed the support of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for child care and protection in the city.

Sorlandet, the oldest fully-rigged ship in operation of Norway, docked Khanh Hoi port in Ho Chi Minh City on August 30 as part of activities marking 45 years since Vietnam and Norway set up diplomatic ties. 

VOV.VN - As part of an effort to put smiles on the faces of the less privileged in society, newly crowned Miss Vietnam 2016 – Do My Linh – celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival with orphans.

A workshop on sharing urban experiences in tackling climate change was held in Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 30. 

Thousands of Khmer households in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh have been connected to the national grid following the completion of a project. 

Nearly one million people in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, or 82% of locals, have access to clean water provided by the Hue Water Supply and Construction Company (HueWACO). 

Vietnam sent three working groups to join a joint training exercise between the experts’ working group (EWG) from ASEAN states and the association’s partner countries on humanitarian assistance, disaster relief (HADR) and military medicine (MM) in Thailand from September 1-11.

More than 3,000 Vietnamese labourers, who failed to meet Lao legal regulations on foreign workers, have returned home through the Lao Bao and La Lay international border gates in the central province of Quang Tri.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) wishes continue to working with Vietnam in protecting children’s rights and child development, said Director of UNICEF in East Asia-Pacific Karin Hulshof. 

Doctors at Ho Chi Minh City Children’s Hospital 1 successfully removed a turtle-shell-like mole on the back of a 10-year-old girl after a 3-hour surgery on August 29.

Temporary residence cards with validation periods of up to five years will now be granted to foreign diplomats living in Vietnam under a new ministerial circular set to take effect next month.

Police are investigating a fall at the Sheraton Saigon Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City that killed a man on August 29.

Confirmed cases of Zika virus in Singapore rose to 82 on August 30, as the United States joined a growing list of countries warning pregnant women or those trying to get pregnant to avoid travel to the city-state.

Health experts discussed ways to tackle barriers and find solutions to provide social health insurance (SHI) to people living with HIV (PLHIV) at a workshop on August 30 in HCM City.

Over 1,720 remote ethnic minority women were supported with finance for income-generating activities through the establishment of women’s Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA).

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, in coordination with the Ministry of Science and Technology, launched the Golden Globe Award 2016 in the fields of science and technology in Hanoi on August 30.

The Silicon Saigon Park JSC on August 30 started the construction of the VND480 billion (US$21.6 million) Saigon Silicon City Centre on August 30.

Chairman of the Lao Front for National Construction Central Committee Saysomphone Phomvihane asked for facilitating high-level visits to share experience in ethnic work during a working session with the National Assembly’s Committee for Ethnic Affairs in Hanoi on August 30. 

Vietnam and Laos have reaped encouraging outcomes in their forestry cooperation but also need to make more efforts to address existing problems such as deforestation and wildlife trafficking along their shared border.

VOV.VN - The Tan Son Nhat-Binh Loi expressway has been officially opened as of August 30 by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport. 

More than 20,000 people in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang have recently signed to support Tran To Nga, who is pursuing a lawsuit against US chemical firms to demand justice for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims, raising the total number of approval signatures in the locality to over 40,000.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has proposed that UNICEF continue to work with Vietnam in giving nutrition support to children, especially those from ethnic minority groups in mountainous and remote areas and poor families. 

The Vietnamese Defence Ministry’s External Affairs Department and a senior officer of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) have presented 75 desktop computers and 75 Canon printers to the Lao People’s Army.

VOV.VN - Officials of the Vietnamese Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation and the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) Central Committee have examined ways to boost mass mobilisation.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta Water have planted rice on 497,000 hectares in the Autumn-Winter crop, 24,000 hectares more from the same period last year. 

VOV.VN - The Vietnam-Ukraine Friendship Association recently held a rally in Hanoi to mark the 25th anniversary of Ukraine National Day (August 24, 1991), that attracted hundreds of participants.

Scientists have confirmed their first findings of traces of ancient wells from the Champa Civilisation in the central province of Thanh Hoa.

The Vietnamese community in Australia has pledged to provide AUD500,000 (US$378,000) for the local arm of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to support refugees. 

The Land Development Regional Office 12 in Trang Province has introduced local farmers to biodiversity and is discouraging the practice of mono-culture, in order to improve the farming base of the local geographical profile. Na-ark Rojanasuvan reports

VOV.VN - A seminar to present and share the achievements of “Vietnam-Yokohama Safety Water Supply Management Project” was organized on 30 August in Hue City.