Pham Duc Trung, the pilot killed in a military aircraft crash during a training session on August 26, has been posthumously honoured with the Fatherland Protection Order (first class). 

A festival for Vietnamese youths and students in Europe featured various cultural and sports activities in Choisy-le-Roi, a city in the suburbs of France’s Paris, on August 27-28. 

The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany participated in the “Open Day” in Berlin on August 28 to introduce cooperation achievements with Germany to international friends.

Thai Airways International (THAI) has been presented with two prestigious and coveted awards; one is the World’s Most Improved Airline and the other the World’s Best Airline Lounge Spa Facility.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) of Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika, all of whom were residents or workers in the Aljunied Crescent and Sims Drive area.

Various activities are held in Thailand throughout the month of August each year to celebrate Her Majesty Queen Sirikit’s birthday anniversary, 12 August. Her Majesty turns 84 this year.

A recent pouring rain that struck Ho Chi Minh City has urged competent authorities to speed up flood control projects and figure out new measures to deal with similar downpours in the future.

Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai have required traffic police and relevant departments to penalize those people who play Pokémon Go while driving.

About 1,100 migrants were rescued from boats in the Strait of Sicily on August 28 as they tried to reach Europe, Italy's coastguard said.

Vietnam’s engagement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will better protect its workers by addressing issues relating to strikes, said an expert.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan have met 445 delegates who attended a congress on excellent youth studying and following President Ho Chi Minh’s moral examples. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited engineers and workers at the construction site of Deo Ca (Ca Pass) Tunnel on August 27 on his way from Ninh Thuan to Khanh Hoa province. 

VOV.VN -  With the aim of erasing gender stereotypes in the community, 24 young Vietnamese formed a group called “Young women making change”. 

Singapore has confirmed its first case of a locally-transmitted Zika virus, which has been linked to microcephaly, a rare birth defect, in Brazil, the health ministry said on August 27.

Professor John Ball, from the British University of Oxford, has been invited to lecture at the Hanoi-based Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM).

Vietnam, with increasingly high income per capita, has become an attractive market targeted by foreign travel firms.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau has adopted a plan on conserving the biological diversity, ecological environment and resources of U Minh Ha National Park at a total cost of nearly VND400 billion (US$18 million) in 2016-2020. 

Most departments, agencies and grassroots organisations in the central city of Danang have applied the ‘one-stop shop’ software system to manage procedures, with 97% of daily in and out documents using the software. 

Many international technology corporations are offering to review businesses’ network security after Vietnam Airlines was hacked recently. 

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on August 27 proposed four options for resuming fishing activities along the central coast following the serious environmental incident caused by the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Company. 

The agricultural irrigation systems need to switch their operations from administrative subsidy mechanisms to market mechanisms in order to meet the goals of responding to climate change and the restructuring of the agricultural sector.

VOV.VN - US Ambassador Ted Osius took part in a Pride celebration on August 26 in Ho Chi Minh City, accompanied by Clayton Bond, his same sex partner, and other members of the US Diplomatic Corps.

VOV.VN - More than 60 students from Vietnam and the EU gathered on August 26 at the Vietnam Embassy in Paris for a one-day seminar to exchange innovative ideas and solutions on how to live life successfully.

The torrential rain on August 26 evening inundated Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, affecting many flights from and to the southern metropolis.

Central provinces have been urged to prioritise disease prevention work during the flood season which has just set in.

People who want to know their HIV status can now test themselves discreetly thanks to the HIV self-testing service that was launched in Vietnam for the first time on August 26.

Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Germany on August 25 raised more than 5,000 EUR (roughly US$5,600) to support people in mountainous and island areas in their homeland.

The Ho Chi Minh Museum has received over 1,000 historical objects and documents about late President Ho Chi Minh collected from August 2015 up to now.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will help Vietnam improve management capacity of the two hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City. 

A requiem for Vietnamese soldiers who laid down their lives for national independence was held at the Vi Xuyen war martyrs’ cemetery in the northernmost province of Ha Giang on August 26.