Nestle Professional, a business unit of Nestle Vietnam, partnered with the Saigon Professional Chefs’ Guild to launch a programme called Vietnam Young Culinary Talent in Ho Chi Minh City recently.

Heavy flood that resulted from downpours has hit southern Thailand, claiming at least 11 lives, according to local media.

As many as 70 photos taken by photographer Trinh Viet Hung during his journey to Truong Sa island district are being on display at an exhibition at the Museum of Cultures of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups in the northern province of Thai Nguyen from December 5-12.

The southern province of Dong Nai has reported its first case of Zika – a woman who tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus, local health department reported.

Measures to save energy in designing, constructing and operating buildings were the focus of discussion at a workshop organised by the Department of Science, Technology and Environment under the Ministry of Construction in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5.   

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has pledged to assist Vietnam in realising sustainable development goals, including the protection, care and education of children.

The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi is scheduled to be reopened for the public on December 6 after three months of repair.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee launched a short training course for officials from the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) in Hanoi on December 5.

VOV.VN -Dang Van Ngu Awards, a distinctive honor to Vietnamese health workers have been bestowed on 119 outstanding individuals and groups.

VOV.VN - Chairman of the Czech-Vietnam Association Marcel Winter has condemned a Czech official for slandering the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic. 

VOV.VN - Fifteen Vietnamese youth will participate in next year’s annual ASEAN-INDIA Student Exchange Program, January 15-18, in New Delhi, reports the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

A naval ship of the Philippines, the PF-16 BRP Ramon Alcaraz,  docked at Cam Ranh International Port in the central province of Khanh Hoa on December 5 for a four-day cordial visit.

General Director of the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Nguyen The Ky has proposed that the agency and the Egypt National Radio finalise procedures for the signing of a bilateral agreement in broadcasting.

Ho Chi Minh City has carried out drastic measures to ensure food safety and hygiene, but this is a long-term fight against unsafe food, said Vice Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thi Thu.

VOV.VN - Police in Ho Chi Minh City have smashed a drug ring, arresting five people and confiscating 1.4 kg of heroin, nearly 4kg of methamphetamine, VND100 million in cash and others.

North central provinces have been urged to diversify their tourism products besides sea tourism. 

Vietnamese Cambodians living in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, have received five tonnes of rice, a present from Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

The important role of counselling in schools has been accepted by most stakeholders, including parents, teachers and administrators, but most secondary schools and high schools do not offer this service.

Flooding due to heavy torrential rainfall has taken the lives of 13 people across the central region over the weekend amid fears of more rain this week. 

Local authorities plan to release the sole surviving monkey in Nghe An Province's protected forest.

Many travelers on tours to Phu Quoc Island, off the southern Vietnamese coast, have jumped at a surprise offer from tour operators to take part in beach-cleaning activities as itinerary extras.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine participated in a charity bazaar in Kiev together with over 40 embassies and international organisations based in the capital.

Ten people were killed, one went missing and three others were injured due to heavy rains and floods in the central region as of December 4, according to the National Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention and Control.

Vietnamese women who get married to foreigners and overseas Vietnamese females living in their homeland engaged in the first-ever exchange programme in Hanoi on December 3. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on December 3 praised nearly 40 students who made high achievements at national, regional and international exams, urging them to make greater efforts to drive the country to the fourth industrial revolution. 

VOV.VN - How many views does it take to make a thousand US dollars advertising on YouTube is a very common question asked everyday by tens of millions of daydreamers hoping to strike it rich.

Lottery companies in southern Vietnam have announced plans to introduce new products to combat the skyrocketing popularity of the computerized lottery c 6/45.

Fourteen executives, all of them Vietnamese, were conferred the coveted ASEAN CIO/CSO Awards in HCM City on December 1.

The Hanoi People’s Court on December 2 gave prison sentences to two Chinese nationals on the charge of “using computer, telecommunication and internet networks to appropriate property” pursuant to Article 226b, Clause 2, Point d of the Penal Code.

A training seminar took place in the central city of Da Nang on December 2, as part of a Japan-funded project on improving budgeting, contract and risk management capacity of construction projects in Vietnam.