VOV.VN - Vietnam detected as many as 30,265 dengue infections in the past six months of the year, including three fatalities, down more than 30% in infection numbers and six fatalities fewer than the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Health.

A ceremony was held on Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Hue walking street on June 28 evening to kick off a series of activities celebrating the 326th founding anniversary of Sai Gon-Cho Lon-Gia Dinh-HCM City (1698 - 2024) and 48 years since Sai Gon-Gia Dinh city was officially named after President Ho Chi Minh (July 2, 1976 - 2024).

VOV.VN - The police of Vietnam have arrested a Chinese national on the wanted list by the Chinese police.

Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat held working sessions with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), several major universities, hi-tech parks and startup centres, as part of his working trip to Germany from June 25-28.

Vietnam plans to build at least 10 new undersea cable routes by 2030, increasing the total number to 15 with a minimum capacity of 350 Tbps.

The wildlife rescue station in Dak Lak province has for many years rescued and treated hundreds of wild animals caught in traps or injured.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) and the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs will jointly conduct information collection for a survey on socio-economic situation of the 53 ethnic minority groups across the country from July 1, according to the GSO.

VOV.VN - A ceremony was held at Xa Mat international border gate in Tay Ninh province on June 28 to receive 172 sets of remains of volunteer Vietnamese soldiers who had died in Cambodia during the past war.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SCOV) in coordination with the Hanoi Bar Association organised a conference on June 27 to popularise regulations and laws regarding the Land Law 2024 of Vietnam to overseas Vietnamese (OVs).

In recent years, earthquakes have occurred more frequently in Vietnam and appear to be on the rise. Therefore, communities in high-risk earthquake areas need to understand this type of natural disaster and develop proactive response plans, an expert has said.

Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat had a meeting on June 26 in Berlin with scientists and intellectuals of the Vietnamese origin in Germany to listen to their policy proposals and answer their queries, towards promoting scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries.

VOV.VN - An article on a research study by doctors at Ho Chi Minh City-based My Duc Hospital was recently published in The Lancet, a highly respected international medical journal in the world.

VOV.VN - The Hanoi Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned that the Breteau index (BI) has exceeded the threshold in several outbreaks in the capital city, making dengue fever increasingly complicated.

VOV.VN - A new heat wave is expected to return to the northern and central regions of Vietnam, with daytime temperatures likely to rise to 39 degrees Celsius, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Scholars from Vietnam, Russia and many other countries have been gathering at a symposium in Moscow from June 26 to 28 to discuss issues in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and feasible solutions.

VOV.VN - An unmanned wooden boat that had been left stranded onto Gio Hai beach of Gio Linh district in the central province of Quang Tri will be destroyed, announced Le Duc Tien, vice chairman of the Quang Tri Provincial People’s Committee, on June 27.

VOV.VN - The 165th repatriation of the remains of US soldiers missing in action during the war in Vietnam (MIA) took place at Da Nang International Airport on June 26.

VOV.VN - As many as 1,071,393 students from across the country are scheduled to start their two-day national high school graduation exam on June 27. Candidates in Hanoi, one of the localities with the most examinees nationwide, get spiritual support from teachers and friends ahead of the important exam.

VOV.VN - A delegation made up of veterans from the US Institute of Peace (USIP) met with representatives from the Vietnam Martyrs' Families Support Association in Ho Chi Minh City on June 26 to share information regarding the search for the remains of Vietnamese martyrs.

Japan will help Vietnam develop an environmental management certification system to reduce waste food for better environmental management and protection, heard a meeting between Vietnamese and Japanese agencies in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on June 25.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese delegation led by Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long had a working session with the leadership of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in Washington DC on June 25.

President To Lam on June 25 signed a decision on the presentation of gifts to revolution contributors on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27).

VOV.VN - As many as 43 passengers luckily survived a severe head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck in Binh Dinh province, central Vietnam, on June 25.

The Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies and the Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices are the Vietnamese academic publications to be in the Q1 list of top journals worldwide.

The Vietnamese Women’s Union in Hungary has been praised for its contributions to the Vietnamese community in the host country over the past 20 years.

The Nguyen Du Lao-Vietnamese bilingual language school in Vientiane held a ceremony on June 24 to close the 2023-2024 school year.

Vietnam has shown high determination in combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing to have the European Commission’s “yellow card” against its fisheries sector removed, with many achievements and positive changes recorded since 2017, commented Nguyen Anh Thu, a researcher of the Blue Security Fellowship programme at Australia’s La Trobe University.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Water Supply and Sewerage Association (VWSA) and the government of Indonesia’s South Sumatra province have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on local clean water management.

VOV.VN - More than 70 scientists and researchers from 17 countries around the world discussed infectious diseases as part of the MIDSEA Summer School, Workshop and Symposium in Binh Dinh province on June 24.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Israel on June 23 warned Vietnamese citizens here to increase safety and security measures in the context of the recent increased risk of a full-scale conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah force on the northern border with Lebanon.