Hundreds of relic sites in Hanoi suffer from serious degradation and need prompt repair, but the estimated costs amounting to trillions of dong surpass the city’s financial capacity.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) is due to open the north-south sky highway subject to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards.

An appeal court in Ho Chi Minh City on August 16 overturned the death sentence awarded to a Filipina drug runner and instead handed down a life sentence after new investigation found she had carried much less cocaine than previously thought.

The tropical storm, which developed from a low-pressure system yesterday afternoon near the East Sea, will bring torrential rains with rainfall up to 500mm for localities in the north and central region from this afternoon until August 20.

A woman in northern Vietnam has been detained for allegedly killing her own three children in their home after a conflict with her husband, police said. 

A business-class passenger has been fined VND15 million (US$700) for slapping a flight attendant during a domestic Vietnam Airlines flight, authorities said on August 17.

Many places across Malaysia are witnessing rising air pollution levels as the southwest monsoon winds blow smoke from land and forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia, northward. 

Malaysian authorities said on August 17 that the MT Vier Harmoni, which was reported missing the day before, had been found, adding that it was not hijacked.

Cervical cancer is currently a burden around the world, but especially in Asia where most mortalities from this type of cancer are recorded, heard a symposium in Hanoi on August 17. 

A series of books on Singapore and its founding father Lee Kuan Yew were introduced in Ho Chi Minh City on August 17 to mark the 51th anniversary of Singapore.

The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) has conducted its first-ever all-level disaster response drill to better prepare for natural calamities in 2016.

The Islamic community has continually been assisted in seeking employment and religious practice by all-level authorities, Muslim dignitaries have said. 

Participants at an international workshop in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province, once again underscored the necessity of maintaining peace and stability in the East Sea. 

VOV.VN - More than 200 delegates discussed sustainable tourism in the era of climate change at a conference hosted by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in Hanoi on August 17.

VOV.VN -On August 17, the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee hosted a meeting in Hanoi to collect opinions on the draft Law on Religion and Belief.

VOV.VN - Lan Khue and other top celebrities have joined forces with Unilever Vietnam and the Vietnam Women’s Union to distribute over 2,300 gift baskets to poor people in Ha Tinh Province.

VOV.VN - A grand music performance will be held in Ha Dong district on August 19 to mark the 71st anniversary of August Revolution and Independence Day, September 2.

The Mekong Delta region faces a severe shortage of medical specialists in five specialised departments of tuberculosis, leprosy, mental diseases, anatomical pathology and forensic medicine, heard participants at a conference earlier this week. 

Ethnics are given a strategic priority in the national policy on national great unity and policies for them should keep abreast with reality in their areas, asserted Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai.

The simplification of administrative procedures has been considered a breakthrough in administrative reform over the past five years, since a resolution in the field was issued by the Government for the 2011-2020 period. 

The draft Law on Belief and Religion has protected the religious freedom of people from all social strata, as well as the practice of religious organisations, said Most Venerable Thich Duc Thien, General Secretary of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Executive Council. 

Doctors from two Hanoi-based hospitals have successfully saved the life of an infant born to a mother suffering a sudden cardiac arrest in surgery that was calculated by the second.

An oil tanker carrying 900,000 litres of diesel was hijacked after leaving a Malaysian port, according to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA). 

The southeastern province of Dong Nai approved a programme on protecting and taking care of children in the province from now to 2020. 

VOV.VN - US Ambassador Ted Osius on August 17 attended prayer ceremonies at the Kim Lien Pagoda in Hanoi’s Tay Ho District on the occasion of the Vu Lan Festival (All Souls Festival) on the 15th day of 7th lunar month.

The Tien and Hau rivers in the Mekong Delta have become deeper in recent years instead of having silt build-up like in years past, experts have said. 

Hanoi expends about VND700 billion (US$31.3 million) per year on mowing grass and pruning plants in public places, according to the head of the municipal administration.

VOV.VN - Thousands of Buddhist followers gathered on August 16 at and around Phuc Khanh Pagoda in the rain to celebrate Vu Lan (Ullambana) Festival. 

Two ships owned by a Chinese company with 23 workers onboard have been abandoned at a shipyard in northern Vietnam since May, local media reported on August 16.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has asked for intensified efforts to accelerate the establishment of a national population database which was approved by the Prime Minister nearly one year ago.