VOV.VN - The future of healthcare in Vietnam is rapidly changing, led by enterprising new companies entering the segment anxious to put new technologies to work in innovative, novel and amazing ways.

Singapore kicked off the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) exercise “Deep Sabre 2016” on September 27 at the Changi Command and Control Center. 

VOV.VN - Hundreds of Vietnamese fishermen have filed claims seeking compensation from a Taiwanese steel company that acknowledged its toxic chemicals caused a massive fish kill, reports US Time magazine

Border guards in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang arrested three men suspected of running a human trafficking ring. 

The number of domestic violence cases reported in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre dropped from 642 in 2012 to 187 in 2015, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The Vietnam Fisheries Association (VFA) has proposed building a map of the sea floor for fishing in the four central provinces affected by the Formosa environmental incident.

The need to accelerate flood-prevention projects has become more urgent than ever as HCM City mobilised workers and pumps to remove water from flooded streets following a historic downpour on September 26 evening that inundated the city.

The risk of infectious disease in Vietnam is still high, with cases of infection likely to increase from now to the end of the year, according to the Ministry of Health. 

VOV.VN -  VOV President Nguyen The Ky received the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Vietnam, Anar Lachin Oglu Imanov, at VOV’s headquarters in Hanoi on September 27.

Hundreds of fishermen traveled by bus to Ha Tinh to demand the Taiwanese firm to cough up for the damage it has caused.

VOV.VN - Miss Communications Phung Bao Ngoc Van took part in charity activities on September 27 to help disadvantaged people in DuK’mal Commune, Krong Ana District, Dak Lak Province.

As the ongoing debate on a possible motorbike ban in Vietnamese cities picks up momentum, a traffic expert has weighed in with his assertion that cars are contributing more to the problem than motorbikes.

Police in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh have apprehended a suspect in the murder of four family members last weekend.

Vietnam has been considered one of the world’s top consumers of alcoholic beverages with 77% of its men drinking beer and other kinds of alcohol, according to a recent survey.

Scientists from the Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang city, the southern central province of Khanh Hoa, have built artificial reefs to aid coral recovery off the coast of Bang Thang cape in Nha Trang Bay. 

The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai is exerting every effort to minimise the impacts of climate change.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan is working closely with Japanese agencies and relevant units to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of a Vietnamese citizen who recently died in the host country, according to the Foreign Ministry’s Press Information Department on September 27.

VOV.VN - An exhibition titled “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa, Truong Sa – Historical and Legal Evidence”  opened in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on September 27 aiming to affirm the country’s sovereignty over the two archipelagoes.

The World Bank in Vietnam on September 27 announced the Vietnam Development Report 2016 themed “Transforming Vietnamese Agriculture: Gaining More from Less,” detailing challenges and opportunities facing the sector.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has accepted a proposal to set up a quick response force in Hanoi to deal with food safety problems. 

The Philippine Ministry of Health has confirmed three new cases of Zika virus, bringing the number of locally-transmitted Zika virus to 12 cases this year, including a pregnant woman.

The Vietnamese Embassy in New Delhi opened a logo design competition on September 26 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between India and Vietnam. 

Investing in the education and health, including sexual and reproductive health, of young people is of utmost importance to Vietnam’s productivity and development in the future, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Secretary of the HCM Communist Youth Union Central Committee, has said.

Vietnamese and Lao parliamentarians shared experience in public debt management during a workshop held in Vientiane on September 27.

VOV.VN - Heavy rains hit HCMC on September 26, causing massive flooding and wrecking havoc on motorists and pedestrians, especially in Districts 1,3,5, Tan Binh, Binh Thanh and Phu Nhuan.

The central city of Da Nang has granted an investment licence to Da Nang Pharmaceutical joint-stock company (Danapha)'s first nano-technology and biotech project. 

Vietnamese nurses and orderlies are in demand in Japan, with around 760 needed this year, but there are only 210 qualified candidates, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA). 

The remains of 98 voluntary soldiers who died in Cambodia while saving the neighbouring country from genocide have been found and repatriated, according to Col. Nguyen Thanh Binh from the southwestern Binh Phuoc Province’s Military Command. 

Localities and ministries must steer clear of subjectivity and strive to find new models for climate change adaption, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue told a meeting on September 26. 

As many as 340 Australian undergraduates will take short-term courses and internship programmes in Vietnam in 2017 as part of the New Colombo Plan Scholarship Programme, unveiled the Australian Embassy on September 26.