The commencement of criminal proceedings against former Minister of Industry and Trade V​u Huy Hoang for his violations related to personnel reception, transfer and appointment will be implemented based on the Party statutes and State law. 

The launching ceremony of the week in response to World Savings Day 2016 took place on October 30 in Hanoi.

The nation reported more than VND13 trillion (US$582 million) in total social insurance debt as of the end of September as many employers had evaded paying social insurance premiums for their staff.

PVI Holdings, the insurance arm of state-run oil and gas giant PetroVietnam, will pay US$3.5 million in compensation for the damages of the Airbus EC 130 T2 helicopter that crashed during a training flight last week.

VOV.VN - Ta Thi Ngoc Thanh, former Director of SOS Children’s Village is known for her devotion to social work and her great love for disadvantaged children. 

Orders and medals of the State of Laos have been presented to nearly 600 Vietnamese people who used to be officials, experts and volunteer soldiers assisting Laos in its revolution. 

 A bilingual book titled “Evidence of China-Vietnam friendship” made its first debut at a ceremony in Hanoi on October 29.

A campaign was launched in Hanoi on October 28 aiming to raise the awareness of the importance of safe herbal products.

The Prime Minister has requested the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to clarify information relating to food poisoning of 34 Japanese tourists returning from the locality on October 28.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and authorities of Kanagawa prefecture launched a campaign to raise fund for flood victims in Vietnam’s central region on October 28.

More than 500 primary and secondary school students in Hanoi, HCM City and central Danang city will take part in the annual Robothon Contest starting on October 30. 

VOV.VN - Vietnam has conferred a friendship order on former Norway politician Thorvald Stoltenberg in recognition of his role in advancing diplomatic relations and strengthening the strategic partnership between the two countries.

The news site failed to follow its operation guidelines and ignored repeated warnings from authorities.

The number of bus users in Ho Chi Minh City has dropped despite the city’s subsidy program to keep fares affordable.

Vietnamese expatriates in Cambodia and Mexico have joined their compatriots in the homeland and around the world in supporting victims of the recent flood in the country’s central region.  

Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Huynh Cach Mang has expressed support of a proposal for more student exchange programmes by Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture. 

Vietnam has jumped five places to 96th position in terms of electricity access, one of the criteria the World Bank uses to rank 189 economies on the ease of doing business. 

The International Trade Union Confederation – Asia Pacific (ITUC – AP) hopes to support the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) at the international level. 

The Government issued drastic instructions and ministries, sectors, localities and the entire people made concerted efforts to combat crimes in 2016, Minister of Public Security To Lam told legislators on October 28. 

Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Australia on October 27 raised 20,000 AUD for the Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund and the “For beloved Hoang Sa-Truong Sa” Club.

The southern province of Binh Duong has declared a Zika epidemic at communal level at Binh Chuan ward of Thuan An township. 

A workshop themed “Japanese ICT Day 2016” was held in Hanoi on October 27 to promote the cooperation between ICT enterprises in Danang and Japan. 

The Women’s Association of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and the Korea Centre for United Nations Human Rights Policy (KOCUN) jointly launched a project to support Vietnamese women married to the Republic of Korea (RoK) men on October 27 in Can Tho city. 

The Ministry of Information and Communications hosted a workshop in Hanoi on October 28 to update the Hanoi-based press outlets and information and communications officials in the north on ASEAN and UNESCO. 

The authorities of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong proposed opening ten more domestic and international air routes to Da Lat city on October 28. 

The Vietnam Committee for Asian - African - Latin America Solidarity and Cooperation under the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) held a seminar in Hanoi on October 28 to review its development over the last six decades.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has listed six hydroelectric power plants that play a vital role in the socio-economic development of Vietnam.

Some experiences on and solutions to improving the quality of dissemination about the Party and State’s policies ethnic areas in the Central Highlands were shared at the a workshop in Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak province on October 28.

A memorandum of understanding on social charity programmes was signed on October 27 by representatives from Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam, marine veterans association of the Republic of Korea and Quang Ngai’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Cinema Association has dusted off an old plan to transform the local movie industry into a leading one in Southeast Asia by 2020, but experts say it’s just a lot of the same old tripe.