HCM City early next year plans to submit for approval to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc a US$276 million metro-line project to Tan Son Nhat international airport in Tan Binh district, the country’s busiest airport.

Coastal provinces and cities from Quang Ninh in the north to Khanh Hoa in the central region have been told to prepare for tropical storm Tokage.

The Electricity of Vietnam’s (EVN) Hanoi Power Corporation (EVN Hanoi) said it plans to review over 18,000 power transformers across the city.

The effective implementation of policies on ethnic groups has helped reduce poverty and improved the living standards of ethnic people in Hanoi.

The Community Hygiene Output-Based Aid (CHOBA) programme has helped more than 11,000 poor households in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap build hygienic toilets since 2012.

Pepper growers and enterprises in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong were urged to link up to improve quality, value and competitiveness as well as form a sustainable value chain of peppercorns.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Vietnam held a conference on November 24 in Ho Chi Minh City to review a project to enhance Vietnam’s capacity in implementing youth strategy from 2011 to 2020.

VOV.VN - Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, is upon us – and it's not just the discounts that go a bit crazy.

Coastal functional zoning is necessary for the management of coastal natural resources, heard a workshop in Hanoi on November 25. 

Cyber security and smart society development were the main focuses of a forum in Hanoi on November 24, which was attended by scientists from research institutes at ASEAN and Vietnamese universities.

VOV.VN - The annual Hanoi Run for Children (HRC) will begin at the main gate of Thong Nhat (Reunification) Park in Hanoi on December 11, it was released at a press conference in Hanoi on November 24.

Around 200 hectares of bleached corals around Con Dao Island have recovered naturally, the management of the Con Dao National Park has said.

Some 348 families have been reunited with their relatives over the past 30 years under the Reestablishment of Family Links programme in HCM City.

The China-ASEAN International Touring Assembly and Media Rally 2016 (CAITA) began its journey across Vietnam in Hanoi on November 24, marking 25 years of the ASEAN – China dialogue relations.

The representative office of the Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City has presented a certificate of merit to Professor, Dr. Vo Tong Xuan for his contributions to friendship between Vietnam and Japan. 

Media in Thailand reported on November 24 that their marine police captured two Vietnamese fishing boats with nine fishermen on board for illegally fishing off Narathiwat province in south Thailand.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the UN, and Hanoi’s People’s Committee have launched an Action Month for Gender Equality and Prevention of Gender-based Violence.

A Chinese man has been transferred to police officers after he was discovered stealing over US$17,000 from a passenger onboard a plane landing at an airport in central Vietnam on November 24.

Anti-drug crime police of northern Hoa Binh province and relevant forces caught red-handed two individuals transporting 20 bricks of heroin and 2,000 synthetic drug pills on the night of November 23.

Up to 14,539 Vietnamese children were adopted in 2011-2015, with 12,768 fostered domestically and the remainder lived with foreign foster families, said the Justice Ministry’s Department of Adoption. 

Southern Dong Nai province hopes to receive more support from Japanese firms in training high-quality human resources  for industrial development in the locality, a local official has said. 

VOV.VN - The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting announced on November 24 that a tropical depression has formed in the eastern sea area south of the Philippines and is heading towards the East Sea. 

Deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Lam Thi Phuong Thanh has praised successes reaped by the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic during her trip to the country from November 21-23.

VOV.VN - President of the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Nguyen The Ky on November 24 hosted a reception at its company headquarters in Hanoi for visiting Director General Vaclav Mika of Radio and Television Slovakia. 

Vietnam’s environment ministry has called on further assistance from local and international organisations to help Vietnam successfully implement the Paris Agreement, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan confirmed on November 23.

Strengthening communications to raise public awareness of traffic laws is the most effective and economical way to ensure traffic safety, said Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) President Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Four Laotian and Thai nationals have been arrested after attempting to smuggle 69 heroin cakes into the north-central Vietnamese province of Nghe An.

Multimedia and information firm Thomson Reuters has released a list of researchers with major global influence and there are five Vietnamese.

Vietnam's government has approved a new educational masterplan that will cut the study time for college students by a year in a bid to scale up the workforce more quickly.

All but four out of 63 Vietnamese cities and provinces are slated to have their area code for landline numbers changed by February 2017, under a decision that not everyone is happy about.