The Selayang Sessions Court of Malaysia on September 15 denied the bail request of a man accused of trafficking five Vietnamese women in August 2016. 

At the 2016 Mekong Tourism Alliance Awards (MTAA) announced last week, Vietnam Airlines shared Best Airlines of the Year with Cambodia’s Angkor Air, Lao Airlines, Myanmar Airways International and Thai Airways.

The Vietnam Green Trees and Parks Association has urged the HCM City Transport Department to allocate more funds to examine 5,500 trees in the city after two people were killed by falling trees in the last three weeks. 

In Vietnam’s crowded public hospitals, patients only get one or two minutes with a doctor instead of 15-20, leading to inadequate health literacy and less effective treatment, according to a leading health researcher.

Lawmakers are set to debate a new proposal to lift the retirement age in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - A large number of overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Laos gathered at Phat Tich, a Buddhist temple in Vientiane on September 15 for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Officials say that drinking more milk will help Vietnamese reach a new high.

VOV.VN - Miss Universe Vietnam 2015 Pham Huong on September 15 presented Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to disadvantaged elderly and children at a pagoda in Ho Chi Minh city and another in Long An province.

Vietnam’s non-compliance rate of 6.6% recorded for the minimum wage in the garment, textile and footwear sectors is the lowest among seven garment exporting countries in Asia, says a new report of the International Labor Organization (ILO).

The proportion of migrants using covert means to enter Europe is expected to rise sharply this year despite European nations pouring at least 17 billions euros (US$19 billion) into reducing migration over the past 18 months, researchers said on September 16.

The Zika infection case discovered in Japan on September 12 is not Vietnamese, confirmed the Health Ministry’s Department of Preventive Medicine on September 15. 

A seminar on urban planning, held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on September 15, attracted experts from Vietnamese localities and Ile-de-France region of France. 

VOV.VN - Huyen My recently joined with other celebs in the performance of a Mid-Autumn Festival play entitled ‘Chú cuội chơi trăng’ to raise money for disadvantaged youth in Vietnam.

Vietnam hopes to expand cooperation with Japan in three priority areas in information and communications technology (ICT) following a Vietnam-Japan policy dialogue on ICT in Hanoi on September 15. 

A landslide triggered by heavy rain left two people dead and five others missing in Quy Chau district, central Nghe An province, which borders Nhu Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province, on early September 14.

State and local officials have granted gifts to children, especially, poor, underprivileged and ill children across the country on the occasion of this year’s Mid-autumn festival, annually held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar (September 15 this year).

It is time to raise awareness and change the mindset about developing tourism, which must be treated following market rules, said Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.

The national carrier reschedules several flights between Vietnam and Taiwan for September 14 and 15.

VOV.VN - Chairman of the municipal Danang People’s Committee Huynh DucTho has praised Japanese partners for conducting a survey on the Danang-Hoi An monorail project.

VOV.VN - Torrential rains and severe floods caused by tropical storm Rai in the central region have left 15 dead and missing, destroyed thousands of houses and submerged more than 15,000 subsidiary crops.

Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC) on September 14 instructed all 12 Emergency Operation Centres to increase their alert level to level two amidst the spread of Zika virus epidemic. 

VOV.VN - On September 14, Miss Vietnam 2016 Do My Linh, the first runner-up Thanh Tu and other beauties participated in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hanoi together with 400 disadvantaged children from the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion.  

A local auto engineer in southern Vietnam has successfully put together a homemade helicopter capable of covering short distances at low altitude.

Local users are likely to experience slow connection speeds through September 19 as the unreliable, rupture-prone AAG gets serviced.

Many streets in Hanoi are now covered with dense grass just over two months since local authorities halted spending on flower and grass cutting from July 1 this year to cut costs. 

A car parked inside the Terminal T2 at the Noi Bai International Airport suddenly caught fire and burst into flames at first light on September 14, killing the driver inside.

Localities in the central region have been asked to overcome the consequences of storm Rai, the fourth hitting Vietnam so far this year.

The Prime Minister has instructed the central province of Quang Nam and relevant agencies to focus all resources on dealing with the dam break incident at Song Bung 2 hydroelectric plant in Nam Giang district. 

Four Vietnamese fishermen saved at sea by Chinese rescuers two months ago are scheduled to arrive in the central city of Da Nang on September 14 night, according to the Vietnamese Consulate General in China’s Guangzhou. 

A slogan penned by a ninth grader from the northern province of Bac Kan has been selected to appear on posters to raise awareness of traffic safety among students nationwide in 2016.