The 90th founding anniversary of the Cao Dai religion was celebrated in Ho Chi Minh City on September 23. 

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Post Corporation has unveiled it will issue a set of stamps on September 24 to promote the contribution of sport to peace and to highlight the 5th Asian Beach Games.

VOV.VN - This year’s British Council New Directions in English Language and Assessment conference will be held in Hanoi on October 13-14. 

VOV.VN - The Danang International Firework Competition (DIFC) is scheduled for April 29 - June 30, 2017. 

Not satisfied with over US$25,000 in gold, they went back to the same shop to try again.

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has affirmed the country’s all-out effort to ensure people’s right to development while addressing the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Declaration on the right to development.

Many shipments have to go through one-week technical checks which have not proved effective.

State management of food safety and hygiene should be re-organised as it remains ineffective in monitoring unsafe food sold in the market, experts have said. 

The Prime Minister has recently agreed to advance Ú$88.7 million to help the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and localities implement projects to tackle droughts and saline intrusion.

A company collected over VND230 billion (over US$10 million) through service message charges from 94,000 mobile service users in Vietnam over two years, but the customers did not know about it.

The source of the unpleasant odor wafting through the southern end of Ho Chi Minh City has been confirmed to originate from rubbish buried at a major waste treatment zone.

The banning of motorbikes in major Vietnamese cities to combat worsening traffic congestion is once again on the table after Hanoi’s Department of Transport has unveiled  its plan to restrict non-resident motorbikes  from entering the capital by 2025.

A medical research publicised recently in Singapore showed that low-income people in the Southeast Asian country face the risk of getting diabetes because of obesity. 

The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine, the Ukraine-Vietnam Friendship Association and nearly 800 students of secondary school 251 named after President Ho Chi Minh in Kiev attached paper doves to a map of Vietnam carrying a wish for a world of peace. 

An appeal court in Hanoi on September 22 upheld the five-year imprisonment sentence for blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh, on the charge of “abusing the rights to democracy and freedom to infringe on the interests of the State and rights and interests of organisations and citizens”. 

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is drawing up plans for a project on sustainable forest protection, restoration and development in the Central Highlands in an effort to stop the loss of forest coverage. 

 A fuel cell laboratory inaugurated at the Vietnam National University-HCM City Laboratory for Nanotechnology on September 21 is expected to help sustainable rural development by producing highly efficient fuel-cell technologies to generate electricity from bio-waste. 

How to effectively implement Decision No. 985a /QD-TTg approving the national action plan on air quality management up to 2020, with a vision toward 2025, was the subject of a conference held in Hanoi on September 22. 

Eleven parcels weighing 82.5kg that are suspected of containing narcotics have been seized while waiting to be shipped to the US by post. 

 An international seminar on sharing New Zealand’s experience in prostitution management was held in Hanoi on September 22.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has praised the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education (VAPE)’s chapters and members for their efforts and contributions to promoting study, talents, education reform to build a learning society.

The Vietnam Journalists Association (VJA) has launched a drive to encourage the donation of documents and artefacts to the Vietnam Press Museum. 

A workshop on enhancing vulnerable groups’ capacity of disaster risk management and climate change adaptation was held by the Association for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities in the central province of Quang Binh on September 21.

VOV.VN - The Hoan Kiem District People’s Committee has announced big plans to expand the areas where it puts pedestrians first.

Soft loans provided in the northwestern region helped lift more than 318,000 families out of poverty between 2011 and 2015. 

VOV.VN -On September 21, Miss Vietnam 2014 Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen presented nearly 300 gifts to poor households in Tan Chau district, Tay Ninh province.

Many European Union (EU) nations are helping Vietnam tackle climate change through various projects. 

The national congress on hematology and blood transfusion opened in the north central city of Thanh Hoa on September 21.

The Southern Power Corporation (EVN SPC) launched a project to provide electricity to rural households in the southernmost province of Ca Mau on September 21.

A technical assistance project funded by the Dutch Government has been successful in enhancing training capacity for the Water Resources University and the Hanoi University of Natural Resources & Environment.