The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has been told that it will put a heavy burden on students by including multiple foreign languages in the curriculum at general schools.

VOV.VN - Trinh Thi Ngo, the legendary announcer of the English service, Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV), has passed away in Ho Chi Minh city at the age of 87. 

The hand, foot and mouth disease season has barely begun in Ho Chi Minh City but hospitals are already seeing a rush of patients, many of them severely affected, according to paediatrics hospitals. 

Aeronautical technologies have been researched and applied widely by many sectors in Vietnam, heard a workshop in Hanoi on September 30.

Ten buildings were honoured at a ceremony to award “Energy-efficient building 2015” prizes in Ho Chi Minh City on September 30.

About 40% of all pregnancies in Vietnam end in abortion, twice as many as the government’s official records, doctors from Hanoi's Central Obstetrics Hospital said in a report.

VOV.VN - A contingent from the Vietnam Embassy in Italy led by Ambassador Cao Chinh Thien recently paid visits to the Puglia and Piedmont regions of the European country seeking to bolster municipal cooperation.

Over 19,000 Vietnamese have lost their jobs as a result of the environmental disaster caused by the Vietnamese steel business of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group earlier this year.

VOV.VN - Human trafficking is a crime and a grave violation of human rights. Vietnam has been working closely with the international community to escalate the fight against human trafficking and improve human rights in general. 

As many as 74,000 families affected by drought and saltwater intrusion in 2016 have received support from the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS), heard a conference in Hanoi on September 30.

A delegation from the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council, led by its Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam recently visited the Cuban capital city of Havana to boost the friendship between the two cities.

A delegation of the European Union has sought closer cooperation with the Steering Committee of the Southwest Region in order to increase socio-economic partnership between the EU and the Mekong Delta region.

New-style rural areas should be built by famers who have knowledge, creativity, and startup spirit, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 

A human trafficker was extradited to Australia from Indonesia, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia Julie Bishop confirmed on September 29. 

Vietnamese women spend over five hours doing so-called “no-name” work such as cooking, cleaning and childcare - about 2-2.5 hours more than men. 

Russia’s globally-rated universities made a fact-finding tour of Vietnam from September 25-30 to seek enrolments, student exchange programmes, and connections with local partners.

A handbook on wind power investment guidelines was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on September 29 as part of the German Government’s support for wind power development in Vietnam.

The Prime Minister has issued a decision on the compensation levels for damage from the environmental incident in the four central provinces caused by Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Company.

VOV.VN - The US Navy has livened up its seventh-annual Naval Engagement Activity (NEA) Vietnam with a cultural exchange at the Sky Line School in Danang featuring the US 7th Fleet Band's popular music group ‘Orient Express’.

Sections of Sai Gon Bridge, one of the five bridges of metro route No. 1 Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien in Ho Chi Minh City, were joined on September 30. 

A road map for turning Phu Quoc island offshore southern Kien Giang Province into a smart city was unveiled on the island on September 29. 

VOV.VN - More than 1.16 million people were unemployed in the third quarter of this year, 40,000 more than those in the second quarter, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).

With the adoption of cutting-edge technology at a comparatively low cost, Professor Mai Trong Khoa - Director of the Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Center, at Bach Mai Hospital - and colleagues have saved many cancer patients “at death’s door”. 

VOV.VN - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel warning, advising pregnant women to consider postponing unimportant travel to 11 Southeast Asian countries where there is high risk of Zika virus infection.

Participants at a conference on governmental cybersecurity heard an urgent message: ensuring information security for each Governmental body is essential, especially as Vietnam is developing an e-Government infrastructure.

The 53 ethnic minority groups in Vietnam had a total population of 13.39 million, accounting for 14.6% of the country’s population (91.71 million) as by July 1, 2015, a survey revealed. 

Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island is facing overwhelming growth in local tourism against the backdrop of a rapid decline in clean water.

Continual downpours since the beginning of this week have revealed poor drainage systems in several parking basements in Ho Chi Minh City, leading to flooded vehicles and upset owners who have yet to receive the appropriate compensation for their damaged property.

Nestlé Vietnam announced its participation in the national programme "Enhancing the Stature and Endurance of Vietnamese People for the period 2011 – 2030” on September 26, on the occasion of Nestlé’s 150th anniversary.

Vietnam is facing great environmental challenges due to a widespread disregard of the law, poor-quality environmental impact assessments, and overlapping regulations in the laws on Environmental Protection and Investment.