An international scientific seminar “Vietnam – India: new context, new vision” took place in Hanoi on August 25 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Independence Day of India and the upcoming visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

At least 13,000 of a total of 14,000 medical clinics nationwide have installed a healthcare insurance IT system since June.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications Group (VNPT) will provide free wireless Internet (wifi) signals along pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem (Sword) Lake and adjacent areas under the approval of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee.

Compulsory drug detoxification facilities will be gradually closed, to be replaced by voluntary treatment under a plan freshly approved by the Prime Minister.

The central city of Danang has chosen the red-shanked douc langur as its mascot for the APEC Year to be hosted in the city in 2017.

The results of tests on seafood caught in the four central coastal provinces affected by the mass fish deaths in April will be announced in early September, according to the Health Ministry’s Food Safety Department.

Restaurants and bars in central Hanoi will be keeping their doors open into the early hours.

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Court on August 24 confirmed the death sentence for a Vietnamese-Australian for drug smuggling after a reinvestigation determined the drug amount was too big to commute the sentence.

The third edition of Geotec Hanoi international conference, themed “Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development,” recently broke its record for the number of abstracts submitted, with 200 submissions for a spot under the limelight.

A year ago, Quach Tinh was released from prison with only the clothes on his back.

It is necessary to promptly devise a national plan on environmental protection to serve as the foundation for appraising and approving investment projects in regions across the country.

Environmental protection should be a compulsory requirement throughout the country’s development process, stated Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a national teleconference on the work on August 24.

The Prime Minister has signed a decision on the establishment of a steering committee on measures to stabilise lives and production in four central provinces affected by the serious environment incident.

A World Bank-funded project on providing medical support to the north central region has achieved set goals and met schedule, the management board of the project in the central province of Thanh Hoa said at a review meeting on August 23.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on August 24 sentenced an Australian national to death for illegally transporting 3.5 kg of drugs.

The Lao team won the first prize of the seventh ASEAN Regional Quiz that took place in Vientiane, Laos on August 24.

VOV.VN - On August 24, Indonesia’s 71st Independence Day (August 17) were celebrated by the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) and the Vietnam-Indonesia Friendship Association in Ho Chi Minh City.

In HCM City’s District 7, twigs, leaves and other parts shed by trees are no longer sent to solid waste treatment plants for burial but are instead recycled for compost.

Universities should reduce the minimum enrollment quotas to focus on improving training quality, said Head of the Ministry of Education and Training’s Higher Education, Nguyen Thi Kim Phung.

Floods killed at least seven gold miners in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, according to local authorities.

Malaysia’s budget airlines AirAsia has announced that it will offer lifetime free flights to all ASEAN athletes who won a gold medal at the recent Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

VOV.VN - It was standing room only at a conference in Quang Nam as scholars, government officials and local residents gathered to discuss a broad set of topics during an urban development conference.

Former Vice President Truong My Hoa made tours to several European countries from August 18-23 to raise funds for the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund and the “For beloved Hoang Sa-Truong Sa” club.

The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on August 23 sentenced two people to death and six to life in prison for involvement in the trafficking of 213 heroin bricks. 

Overseas Vietnamese and locals in the Czech Republic met in Prague on August 23 to support the recent ruling from the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, the Netherlands, on the Philippines’s lawsuit against China’s claims in the East Sea.

VOV.VN - The Binh Phuoc provincial Department of Education and Training (DoET) will offer free tuition fees, clothes, books and learning facilities to 78 Cambodia-born Vietnamese children who have no birth registration in the 2016-2017 academic year, said Nguyen Van Hung, director of DoET.

Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd, which was blamed for mass fish deaths along the central coast earlier this year, expects to fix all of its environmental protection problems by mid-2018. 

The image of local government workers cycling around Hoan Kiem Lake to collect rubbish has become more familiar to Hanoians.

Relaxed visa policy has done the trick.

Cao Van Ba lost half of his two-hectare orchard on Son Islet due to serious erosion in the past few years.