Many serious environmental pollution cases were uncovered and strictly handled in 2016, the Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) said on December 29.

The largest ever number of rare Java pangolin (Manis javanica), 54 individuals, have been released into the wild recently by the Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) in coordination with Cuc Phuong National Park and Hanoi Wildlife Rescue Centre.

VOV.VN - Twenty brand new buses are being put into service on routes throughout Hanoi, say Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) officials.

Ho Chi Minh City residents should try to walk at least 10,000 steps a day to improve health and fight diseases related to lack of exercise, a nutrition expert has advised.

The government of HCMC is planning to build a tunnel under Ton Duc Thang Street stretching from Ba Son Shipyard area to a bridge connecting districts 1 and 4.

The company reportedly directed coal sludge into the Thi Vai River in Dong Nai Province.

The duo, by accident, found an elusive debtor on a Hanoi street after nearly a decade. They attacked him.

A Hanoi appeal court on December 27 upheld the verdict of a former banker, who was sentenced in October 2015 to 30 years imprisonment for her main role in a corruption scandal that caused multi million-dollar losses to a state-owned bank.

Climate change and abnormal weather conditions have strongly impacted people’s health, triggering disease outbreaks including recurrence of new epidemics, said the Ministry of Health (MoH).

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) has provided commodities and necessities worth US$70,000 to help victims who were affected by a devastating flood in September in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

As many as 15,489 smuggling cases have been uncovered this year, the General Department of Customs told a press conference in Hanoi on December 28. 

The Southern economic hub is rushing to realise its traffic infrastructure plan in which nearly 700km of expressway is expected to be built over the next five years.

Over 3,000 people with disabilities and their families in the central province of Quang Tri have benefited from a German-funded rehabilitation project over the last three years.

The year 2016 has seen many religious events held across the country, attracting large numbers of followers and visitors, and religious organisations.

 The Government has targeted over 90 percent of nationwide population covered with health insurance by 2020. 

VOV.VN - A large number of experts gathered in Hanoi at a seminar on December 28 to discuss the formation of a foundation to encourage Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) to give back to the national development.

A conference was organised in Ban Lung city, the Cambodian province of Ratanakiri on December 26 to review security and social order in shared border areas of six provinces of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

Police in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City have arrested two women and a man for allegedly trafficking women to China.

Vietnamese living in the Republic of Korea numbered 147,295 by the end of November, accounting for about 7.4 percent of the total expatriates in the country.

It is necessary to work out synchronous measures to reduce the number of Vietnamese fishermen captured for illegal fishing in Indonesia’s territorial waters, Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Hoang Anh Tuan said in a recent interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Jakarta.

One of the solutions to prevent sexual harassment at school is to equip students with the necessary skills to identify signs of sexual abuse so that they are able to protect themselves, heard a workshop in Hanoi on December 27.

The implementation of the “Vietnamese use made-in-Vietnam goods” campaign is a right policy that needs to be stepped up to boost the domestic market in the long run.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese sailor Nguyen Van Thanh, who was left in Cape Town by a Taiwanese fishing ship two months ago, returns home on December 28 on a Kenya Airways flight, according to the Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa.  

Vietnam’s plan to make airlines park their planes overnight at a different airport to reduce congestion at Tan Son Nhat has been dismissed by industry insiders as impractical.

Head of the Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) under the Ministry of Health Dr. Nguyen Thanh Phong on December 27 said that six inspection teams will be set up for food safety in Tet holidays (the Lunar New Year) and festive season 2017.

The lack of soft skills is making Vietnamese workers less competitive in the international integration process, heard a recent conference on the impact of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) on local students and young laborers. 

As the year is coming to an end, Tuoi Tre News has prepared a list of 10 most thought-provoking issues about traffic in Vietnam this year.

A woman in Ho Chi Minh City is being investigated after she was accused of putting rat poison in the broth at a noodle stand, allegedly due to family conflicts.

Nearly 14 million spam messages are frustrating phone users across the country every day despite efforts by information and telecommunication authorities to combat them.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on December 27 received VND500 million (US$21,700) in support of flood victims in the south central region.