The Prime Minister has decided to establish a Central Steering Committee for 2016-2020 National Target Programmes with Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue acting as its head.

Vice President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations Don Tuan Phong has suggested US activists call on the US Government to pay more heed to decontaminating “environmental hot spots” in Vietnam and supporting local Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims.

Over 1 million primary, secondary and high school students in Ho Chi Minh City started their new academic year of 2016-2017 on August 15. 

More streets in Hanoi will be shut to traffic at weekends so pedestrians can enjoy Hoan Kiem Lake from October. 

As many as 23,000 primary pupils will benefit from a nutrition programme launched by the Study Encouragement Fund of the Vietnam Soya Products Company (Vinasoy) during the first semester of 2016-2017 school year.

The Management Board of Hoa Lo Prison historical relic site in Hanoi on August 15 received valuable remembrances from the family of Water Eugene Wilber, a US pilot who was detained in the prison from 1968 to 1973. 

More than 147,000 students, teachers, soldiers and officers from Ho Chi Minh City joined a youth volunteering campaign during this summer, heard a ceremony to review the event on August 14. 

VOV.VN - Actress Viet Huong has recently paid a special visit to elderly residents at the Tan Hiep Centre in Binh Phuoc Province.

The capital city of Hanoi has targeted that 98% of local underprivileged children will receive assistance and protection between now and 2020. 

At least six people died, one is missing and three were injured after torrential rains swept through the northern and north-central regions over the past few days, according to the Central Steering Committee on National Disaster Prevention and Control.

Chinese authorities refused to allow Vietnamese fishing ships, which encountered bad weather at sea, entry to Bong Bay Island for shelter.

VOV.VN -During the ‘ghost month’, beginning on August 14 and ending on September 12, Vietnamese people offer food, many types of fruit and votive papers to hungry ghosts who supposedly wander the streets and drop into some houses.

Vietnamese cultural television channel NetViet - VTC10 has recently officially launched terrestrial digital broadcast in the US state of California, under the system of the television station Kaza TV - one of ten units with a maximum coverage of over six million subscribers.

Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) divers on August 14 recovered the remains of a Vietnamese fisherman who went missing when a fishing boat sank in waters off Bintulu 11 days ago.

The transportation sector must work closely with law enforcement agencies to bolster the fight against wildlife crime and reduce demand for wildlife consumption, experts said at a two-day workshop that ended on August 12 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Ministry of Education and Planning has set itself an ambitious goal of making English the second language at universities across Vietnam.

The Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre for Zone 2 in Danang (Danang MRCC) has rescued a Singaporean sailor who fell serious ill on the Cook Islands flagged vessel Sam Young offshore central Danang city.

Pokémon GO poses a potential threat to information security and user data, according to Vietnamese experts.

Southern Binh Duong province has worked on a feasibility study on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) that links the province with Ho Chi Minh City’s metro line No.1.

Downpours, triggered by an intertropical convergence zone across the north of Vietnam since August 13, have taken their toll in some provinces.

Hundreds of hectares of scallion seedlings in south-central Binh Dinh province’s Phu My district are dying because of a shortage of water due to prolonged drought, local farmer said. 

Ho Chi Minh City schools have been instructed to work with ward-level health centres to disinfect classrooms and devices used to serve children eating lunch, taking a nap and attending extra classes ahead of the new academic year. 

Representatives of the Government’s Religious Affairs Committee paid a visit to Most Venerable Thich Pho Tue, Supreme Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS), on Vu lan (Ullambana) – a major Buddhist festival. 

More than 5,000 students and youths participated in a walk in Ho Chi Minh City on August 14 to raise money for scholarship funds in support for disadvantaged students. 

A province in northern Vietnam was hit by a tremor reaching a magnitude of 3.2 on the Richter scale in the afternoon of August 13.

One person was killed and six others injured after a train slammed into a car in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa in the evening of August 13.

 Dozens of households in Pham village in the northern province of Thai Nguyen have good incomes thanks to a new job: raising white horses to process bone glue and supply horse meat to restaurants across the country.

The lawyer of a man who has recently been cleared of a murder conviction says his client is seeking more than VND12 billion, or nearly US$550,000, in compensation for 43 years fighting the case.

Dang Vu Minh,15, and Dao Nhat Minh, two secondary school students in Hanoi, have won a gold medal for their research on the red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus).

A court in the south-central province of Binh Thuan has sentenced a 24-year-old local man to death for kidnapping and murdering a fifth grader in April.