VOV.VN - Streets across the capital have been adorned with national flags, flowers, and banners to mark President Ho Chi Minh’s 134th birthday on May 19.

VOV.VN - The average life expectancy of Vietnamese people has surged by 15 years, with a significant decline being recorded in vaccine-preventable diseases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Vietnamese businesses brought their products to a charity fair held recently by the Heads of Mission Spouses Association (HOMSA) in Canada in support of local women on the occasion of Mother’s Day (May 12).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed to issue a dispatch to relevant ministries, agencies, and localities, asking for strengthened measures to manage electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco.

Vietnam participated in the second diplomatic fair to raise funds for disabled children in Denmark held by Ambassadors’ Spouses Group (ASG) in Copenhagen.

A ceremony was held on May 13 in Vientiane, Laos, to hand over and repatriate two sets of remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and experts who sacrificed in the Lao capital city.

Vietnam will provide free anti-phishing software for its people from July, heard a workshop on preventing cyber fraud held by the National Cybersecurity Association on May 13.

VOV.VN - A training programme aimed at sharing experience in carrying out the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) within the framework of a justice and legal empowerment project in Vietnam funded by the EU was held on May 13 in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha expressed the country’s wish to get further support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to restructure and solidify its preventive healthcare system during a reception for Dr. Saia Ma’u Piukala, regional director of the WHO for the Western Pacific, on May 13 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to Poland Ha Hoang Hai recently held a working session with representatives of associations and communities to listen to their wishes and suggestions to support Vietnamese traders and workers affected by a recent fire at a shopping centre in Warsaw which had hundreds of Vietnamese stalls.

VOV.VN - Many kiosks owned by Vietnamese nationals have been burned down in a fierce fire at a shopping centre in Warsaw, the capital of Poland.

VOV.VN - An Iridescent cloud or five-coloured cloud hung in the sky of Ho Chi Minh City, southern Vietnam, on May 12 afternoon, capturing great public attention.

The Hanoi Department of Transport has just submitted an investment proposal and a pre-feasibility study report on a project to build a tunnel connecting two urban railway lines, No 2A and line No 3.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the sixth National Student Entrepreneurship Festival held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on May 12.

The authorities of Hoanh Mo commune of Binh Lieu district, the northeastern province of Quang Ninh, coordinated with their Chinese counterparts from Fangchenggang city’s Dong Zhong town to clean up the environment along the shared border river from May 9 to 11.

Vietnam has issued major guidelines, policies and orientations to develop innovation and startups, as the Party and State always consider science-technology and innovation as a “strategic breakthrough” and a “main driving force” to create improvements in productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy.

VOV.VN - Part of a decomposing whale weighing approximately three tonnes has been discovered washed up on a beach in Dien Chau district of Nghe An province, central Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha held a ritual at National Martyrs Cemetery A1 in Dien Bien Phu city on May 10 morning to commemorate officers, soldiers and young volunteers who laid down their lives during the Dien Bien Phu campaign over French colonialism 70 years ago.

Vietnamese workers hold numerous opportunities in the high-tech labour market, but stronger efforts are still needed to improve their skills to meet employers’ demand.

VOV.VN - Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son hosted a working session on May 10 in Hanoi with Ambassador Julien Guerrier, head of the EU Delegation to Vietnam, to discuss ways to ramp up educational cooperation between Vietnam and the EU.

Israel is ready to advise Vietnam on irrigation technologies suitable for soil conditions in the Southeast Asian nation, the country's Ambassador Yaron Mayer said at a workshop held by the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in Hanoi on May 10.

VOV.VN - El Nino is gradually weakening and is anticipated to change to La Nina in the last months of the year, causing heavy rain in the central region, a scenario similar to the historic flooding that led to catastrophic consequences throughout central localities in 2020, warned meteorologists.

VOV.VN - The Police Investigation Agency of Dong Nai province on May 10 decided to prosecute and detain Feng Yong, a Chinese national, for his responsibility linked to a boiler explosion at his wood processing factory in Dong Nai, leaving six dead and five injured.

VOV.VN - People who have already received the AstraZeneca vaccine shots do not need a D-Dimer test or any other blood clotting test, recommended the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health (MoH).

VOV.VN - Vietnam has been named among the Top Countries By Forest Growth Since 2001 complied by Visual Capitalist, a data-driven visual content focused on global trends, investment, technology, and the economy.

Relevant agencies of Vietnam are coordinating closely with the Chinese side to search for the fishermen from central Quang Binh province who went missing after their vessels got into distress at sea, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Pham Thu Hang said on May 9.

Chairman of the Nagano prefectural council Nishizawa Masataka said on May 9 that the Japanese prefecture wants to receive more Vietnamese guest workers and apprentices in the coming time.

The Lao Ministry of National Defence recently held a dialogue on the Dien Bien Phu Victory on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, providing the Lao officials and soldiers with an insight into the solidarity of the Vietnam-Laos special combatant alliance.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has proposed a ban on e-cigarettes, while the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) wants to legalise them by allowing a pilot management programme to control the products.

VOV.VN - Police operating in the southern province of Tay Ninh and the Gendarmerie of Svay Rieng province of Cambodia have busted a major gang operating transnational fraudulent appropriation of property, arresting 20 local and Chinese citizens in the process.