A workshop was held in Hanoi on February 26 to launch a Vietnam encyclopedia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc advised the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang to promote forestry economy and make it a national model in the field while working with provincial authorities on February 26.  

Hundreds of Vietnamese people living and working in Switzerland came together at a meeting in Geneva on February 25.

VOV.VN -Universities nationwide are going to hold the preliminary rounds of Robocon Vietnam 2017 on March 1-20 to shortlist 6 teams for the qualifying round scheduled to take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on April 1-5.

Hundred metres of land along rivers and coastlines have been destroyed by unusually strong winds and waves, combined with rising tides in the southernmost province of Ca Mau.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has approved a pilot programme that will utilise software and automation technology to manage public parking zones in the city.

The national immunisation programme will give supplemental vaccinations against Japanese encephalitis to children between six and 15 years old, who did not receive the vaccine, or are not sure about their vaccination schedule previously, in districts facing high risks of the disease.

Vietnam’s hosting of APEC 2017, with the convergence of both leading and emerging economies, plays a significant role in reaffirming its dynamic socio-economic development as well as active participation in regional and international forums.

The Vietnamese Doctors’ Association in Cambodia was established at a ceremony in celebration of Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27) in Phnom Penh on February 26.

The Vietnamese Embassy in India participated in a charity bazaar in New Delhi on February 26 with other embassies based in the capital city.

VOV.VN - The 2030 Business Club will present more than VND1 billion worth of 500 bikes and 1,500 gifts including school materials and confectionary to disadvantaged children in Chau Thanh and Ben Cau districts, Tay Ninh province.

Sidewalks along a major hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have been equipped with a complicated system of barricades, an effort originally meant to reclaim space from vendors for pedestrians but now turning out to create immense difficulty for the latter.

Polish tourist and his Vietnamese guide died during a climbing accident in the resort town of Da Lat this week.

Four people in a family, including two young children, have been killed in a fire that broke out at their house in southern Vietnam around midnight on the weekend.

Two earthquakes set off an explosion near a hydropower plant prompting terrified residents to flee into the streets.

Central Highlands localities are striving to generate jobs for over 113,000 labourers each year from now to 2020, thus increasing income of locals and contributing to sustainable poverty reduction in the region.

Statistics show that as many as 200,000 graduates cannot find jobs in Vietnam at present.

As many as 13 contraventions of the Dyke Law have been reported in Hanoi so far this year, according to the municipal Department on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Every day thousands of old cars, trucks, and special purpose vehicles are taken to Te Lo village in Yen Lac district, northern Vinh Phuc province. 

A Vietnamese doctorate candidate has been offering free Vietnamese and Chinese courses to Vietnamese brides and their in-laws in Taiwan to facilitate integration and help remove social stigmas imposed on the local Vietnamese community for the past decade.

VOV.VN - Lonán Ó Briain, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham, recently gave a presentation on the history of Voice of Vietnam’s music at the French Cultural Center L’Espace in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Health has promulgated an action plan to prevent A/H7N9 avian flu outbreaks in Vietnam, with the focus placed on early detection, timely treatment and limiting death toll.

Ensuring food security in response to climate change is one of the four prioritised topics proposed by Vietnam for the APEC Year 2017 agenda, said an official.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to launch the first river bus transport service in June connecting Bach Dang Wharf in District 1 with Thu Duc district, and a second route in September from Bach Dang Wharf to District 8.

The central island district of Ly Son plans to restore a whale skeleton and an exhibition centre for whale skeletons with an investment of VND10 billion (US$442,477).

VOV.VN - Fuji Xerox in collaboration with Save the Children has launched a program to provide learning materials to underprivileged children with limited education living in remote areas of central and northern Vietnam.

The Japanese government has recently approved a JPY100 million (US$887,000) project to establish a robotics training facility in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest economic hub.

The capital city of Hanoi will spend big on hospital development, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said at a meeting to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of the Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27) in Hanoi on February 23.

A Vietnamese national, named Huynh Thi Thanh Tuyen, has been murdered at her residential place in Vientiane, according to the Vietnamese Embassy in Laos. 

VOV.VN - British Council Vietnam has partnered with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs to hold a seminar on the development and implementation of Vietnam's National Qualifications Framework.