VOV.VN - JICA Vice Chair Shinya Ejima held talks on November 18 with the Municipal People’s Committee in Ho Chi Minh City regarding the best way to proceed in financing and implementing infrastructure projects. 

Vietnam has successfully performed nearly 1,400 organ transplant surgeries over the past 20 years, said Le Quang Cuong, Deputy Minister of Health. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 17 joined residents in Dien Bien ward, Hanoi’s Ba Dinh district, at the great national unity festival, which was held on the occasion of the 86th anniversary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) (November 18). 

The fourth of the six volume Czech-Vietnamese encyclopedia was released at the Embassy of Vietnam in Prague, the Czech Republic on November 16. 

Traditional motorbike taxi drivers in Ho Chi Minh City are helpless and infuriated as their livelihood is threatened by a new generation of technology-based drivers.

With a passion for helping others, a group of volunteers have formed to help pick nails from the streets and fix punctures on motorbikes traveling on the highway that connects Ho Chi Minh City with the coastal city of Vung Tau.

Some ancient limestone caves in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site visited by millions of tourists each year, have been damaged, local officials said.

RMIT University Vietnam’s Master of Architecture programmes, which can be taken on a full-time or part-time basis, will accept its first intake in 2017.

The annual charity race Run for the Heart 2016 will be held on December 3 at LePARC commercial centre in Yen So park in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai district.

A Chinese man was caught stealing from the luggage of another passenger on a flight to Hanoi on November 17, local media reported.

A wide variety of activities were held in numerous provinces and cities around the country on November 16 to celebrate the 34th Vietnamese Teachers’ Day (November 20, 1982-2016).

 Ho Chi Minh City should take intervention measures to build itself into a safe city that prevents women and girls from sexual harassment and other forms of sexually violence in public spaces.

Germany is interested in climate change adaptation projects in the Mekong Delta, Vice President of the German parliament Edelgard Bulmahn said at a working session with the Steering Committee for the Southeastern Region in Can Tho city on November 17.

VOV.VN - Former beauty queen Huyen My had the opportunity to welcome to Vietnam the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, who is in Hanoi to attend the third conference on wildlife trade.

General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyen Duc Loi joined representatives from nearly 100 news agencies all over the world at the fifth News Agencies World Congress (NAWC) that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 16-17. 

The Government Office recently issued a document detailing Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam’s directions on support to children of Vietnamese women who married foreigners returning to live in Vietnam.

Official documents on paper will be replaced by digital documents in HCM City from next year as part of a public administration review.

The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has decided to grant all disabled citizens in the social security system universal healthcare under the “Gold Card” system and has decreed that obstructions to their medical treatment be removed.

VOV.VN - Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on November 17 opened a conference in Hanoi on illegal wildlife trade with a warning that the failure to protect endangered species would have dire consequences.

Inspectors from the Ministry of Health have started to inspect smoke-free restaurants and hotels in Hanoi as part of efforts to build a non-smoking environment in public places.

Deputy Bangkok Governor Jakkapan Pieungam has inspected the progress of drainage tunnel from underneath Bang Sue Canal to the Chao Phraya River, reported to be 80% complete and will be operational in April next year.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued Circular 26/2016 to regulate the classification of marine areas based on the level of risk of pollution. 

A ceremony was held at Hanoi-based Quan Su Pagoda on November 17 in memory of Most Venerable Thich Chon Thien, Deputy Supreme Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddist Sangha (VBS). 

Seven years ago, teacher Cao Thi Thanh Minh left her comfortable surroundings in the north-central coastal province of Quang Binh and moved to an island commune in one of HCM City’s outlying districts. 

The Fisherman Support Fund of central Quang Ngai province aims to mobilise VND10 billion (US$450,000) per year, including VND1 billion from the provincial budget, to support local fishermen. 

The Civil Society Empowering Rural Communities project, funded by the European Commission via ActionAid International Vietnam (AAV), has contributed to improving social welfare of people in Quan Ba district, the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang. 

VOV.VN - The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis on November 16 had an interesting meeting with 50 young Vietnamese people in Hanoi talking about their contributions to the society.

A smart multi-storey parking lot was inaugurated at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on November 16, meeting increasingly huge demand for vehicle parking and helping reduce rising traffic congestion in front of the airport.

VOV.VN - November 16 was seen as a busy day for the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis with a host of activities such as meeting some artists at a café pub in Thuoc Bac Street, visiting Ngoc Son Temple and playing football with pupils from Hong Ha Primary School.

The city already has three courses, with another one in the making.