Funding shortages and foreign language deficiencies have hindered the nation’s efforts to strengthen information security in the digital era, experts said.

VOV.VN - Border police and customs officials in central Quang Tri province arrested two firecracker smugglers on January 12 for the illegal transport of 84 kg of various firecrackers from Laos to Vietnam. 

The Hanoi People’s Court has decided to bring Trinh Xuan Thanh and his accomplices to trial involved in “asset embezzlement” case at the PetroVietnam Power Land JSC (PVP Land) on January 24. 

VOV.VN -Being able to hold down a steady job providing a secure income and maintaining good health are major concerns for Vietnamese consumers.

Five Vietnamese female scientists were granted the 2017 L'Oreal-UNESCO awards at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 12.

Students from Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani Technical College have taken the championship title at the 10th International Collegiate Snow Sculpture Contest 2018 in China, retaining the honor for Thailand for the ninth year in a row. 

Doan Thanh Tung, a young businessman, will represent Vietnam at the Australia-ASEAN Emerging Leaders Programme 2018 (A2ELP) that will take place in Australia for three months from early March. 

Ho Chi Minh City hopes to have more cooperation activities with Japanese localities, including Aomori prefecture, to develop hi-tech agriculture, said a local official. 

Dual vocation training model has proved an effective means of enhancing links between schools and businesses, heard a conference to review the first phase of the Danish-Vietnamese Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) project in Ho Chi Minh City on January 12.

The Ministry of Health has issued a set of criteria to classify the quality of private hospitals and healthcare clinics across the country.

 Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Information and Communications has completed expanding and upgrading the information system for infrastructure breakdowns, called the 1022 system.

VOV.VN - A large fire broke out on January 12 in the paint storehouse of a footwear factory in Tan Lien Industrial Park, Tan Lien commune, Vinh Bao district in Hai Phong city. 

 The Central Highlands Dak Nong provincial chapter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) will provide further care for the poor and ethnic minority groups in disadvantaged and border areas this year, said its Chairman Dieu Xuan Hung. 

The Binh Duong People’s Committee earmarked nearly 190 billion VND (8.36 million USD) to assist local workers and policy beneficiaries on the occasion of Lunar New Year holiday (Tet).

The most important challenge facing the Vietnamese working class is to get ready to ride the fourth industrial revolution, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam. 

VOV.VN - The remains of 9 Vietnamese soldiers killed in Laos were received in Dien Bien province on January 12 before being buried with full military of honours. 

The central city of Da nang has fined the owners of an illegally enlarged beach resort in Ngu Hanh Son District 100 million VND (4,400 USD) and will dismantle all buildings involved after January 18.

The People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City and its counterpart of Busan city in the Republic of Korea (RoK) have signed an agreement on establishing friendship and cooperative ties towards further contributing to the relations between the two cities. 

VOV.VN - Two Vietnamese workers were killed after a scaffolding structure at a hydroelectric power plant in Laos collapsed, said local authorities.

Ethnic minority women in Mai Son district, the northern mountainous province of Son La, will be assisted to increase their economic rights under a project funded by the Australian Government. 

As many as 27 wild animals were released into their natural habitat on January 11 by the Wildlife Rescue and Protection Centre at the Chu Mom Ray National Park in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum.

Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan received Damian Yeo, head of legal and regulatory affairs for Facebook in the Asia Pacific region, in Hanoi on January 11. 

VOV.VN -Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Council Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam has assured the People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City's desire to work with the people’s councils of Lao localities to share their operation experience as a contribution to deepening bilateral relations.

The Hanoi procuracy on January 11 proposed life imprisonment for Trinh Xuan Thanh, former Chairman of PetroVietnam (PVN) Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) on the charge of “asset embezzlement”.

Vietnam is one of the countries with the lowest level of travel security risk, according to the US Department of State.

VOV.VN - Two policemen have been injured in the northern province of Dien Bien while apprehending two drug traffickers who were in possession of 21 cakes of heroin.

More than 6 million poor people were provided with free health checkups and medicines thanks to a humanitarian programme on treatment and public health services in the 2014-2017 period.

Sixty two poor districts across the country lack a total of almost 600 doctors with specialisations in 15 different areas, including obstetrics, paediatrics, emergencies and infectious diseases.

The quality of E5 bio fuel in Vietnam is ensured and meets international standards. All features, capacity and fuel consumption remain the same, and in some criteria E5 is better than RON 92, officials said.

The 98th birth anniversary of Hoa Hao Buddhism founder, Prophet Huynh Phu So, was celebrated at An Hoa temple, Phu My town, Phu Tan district, the southern province of An Giang, on January 11 (the 25th day of the 11th lunar month).