Japan’s Fuji Engineering Co., Ltd commenced a project to build houses for rent and provide services for experts and workers at Japanese enterprises in the Dong Van I Industrial Zone in the northern province of Ha Nam. 

Representatives from 182 member countries of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) are gathering at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) in Johannesburg, South Africa from September 24 to October 5.

A meeting was held in Hanoi’s outskirts district of Ba Vi on September 24 in response to World Rabies Day (September 28).

European countries on the route used by more than a million migrants to reach the continent last year agreed on September 24 to focus on the more easily achievable ways to prevent another influx than the big issues the EU is divided over, Austria said.

They found the women as they were about to be sold to China across the border.

Vietnam ICT Summit 2016 officially launched on September 24 under the theme “Digital revolution - Opportunities and Challenges”.

The Vietnam Book of Records (Vietkings) has recognized a little girl as the country’s youngest songstress.

A Vietnamese girl came out atop hundreds of other submissions to a letter-writing competition with a touching letter from the perspective of the Syrian refugee boy who drowned last year in the Mediterranean Sea.

The British Business Group Vietnam will host its 16th Annual Fun Run for Charity in District 7’s Phu My Hung Urban Area on September 25. 

President Tran Dai Quang urged the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) to reform trade union activities at his working session with the confederation in Hanoi on September 24.

VOV.VN - Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) on September 23 confirmed that 16 pregnant women in the country have been infected with the Zika virus.

VOV.VN -  As one of the countries most affected by climate change, Vietnam has proactively adapted to extreme weather phenomena, especially the climate’s influence on agricultural production. A number of solutions have been applied.  

VOV.VN - Of the countless challenges that Vietnam faces today, perhaps the most overpowering is how to shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution that began at the turn of the century, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

At least 133 bodies had been recovered by September 23 from a boat carrying hundreds of migrants that capsized off Egypt two days earlier, Egyptian officials said.

AES-VCM Mong Duong Power Company has organised a first-aid training for more than 160 local people at the clinic of the northern province of Quang Ninh’s Mong Duong ward where the company’s US$2 billion thermal power plant is located.

The Rex Hotel in downtown HCMC will play host to a free-admission exhibition of commemorative stamps of Thailand and Vietnam on September 24-25 on the lobby level.

More than US$67 million has been poured into the central province of Quang Tri to help it clear bombs and mines left from the war over the past two decades.

Complaints and denunciations sent to state administrative agencies have tended downward in 2016 compared to last year, Deputy Inspector General of the Government Inspectorate Dang Cong Huan reported. 

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha said the textbooks for teaching English at Vietnamese schools will be textbooks of a certain country that will be ‘localized’ to fit Vietnamese conditions, rather than ones compiled by Vietnam.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has included a provision to raise the retirement age in the draft amendments of the Labour Law.

Experts have voiced their concern about Chinese phone products in the domestic market, warning that there are latent risks about information insecurity.

Permanent deputy head of the Steering Committee for the Northwestern Region Hau A Lenh and Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien signed a cooperation agreement in Hanoi on September 23, with a view to improving health care and preventive medicine in the region between now and 2020.

Vietnamese health experts and those from the World Health Organisation and universities in the US, China and Thailand shared experiences in medical education and training trends in the world at a workshop in Hanoi on September 23.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Embassy in Laos and the Laotian Defense Ministry will co-host an exhibition on the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos from 1961 to 1975.

Vietnam has made the biggest jump this year to claim 11th place in the world’s friendliest country list, according to The InterNations Survey which interviewed more than 14,000 expats living in 67 countries around the world. 

A conference was held in the central province of Nghe An on September 23 in response to World Rabies Day 2016 (September 28). 

The Fifth Asian Beach Games (ABG 5) International Communications Centre (ICC) was inaugurated in the central city of Da Nang on September 23.

The Vietnam - Republic of Korea (RoK) friendship village in Vung Liem town, Vung Liem district, Vinh Long province has become a venue accommodating local disadvantaged people and helping them secure stable livelihoods.

The Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV) group has called on member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to vote against Swaziland’s proposal to legalise the rhino horn trade. 

VOV.VN - Samsung Electronics has partnered with the Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy to deploy its pioneering Smart Classroom solutions for training medical professionals.