The Vietnam Innovation Network in Europe (VINEU) officially launched its operations in France at a ceremony held in Paris on December 10.

VOV.VN - A rice-themed road and a rice-made map have been recognised as the longest and the largest of their kinds in Vietnam by the Vietnam Records Organization (Vietkings).

A Vietnam labour day was held in the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Siheung city on December 10.

VOV.VN - The recent announcement by Cambodia of two additional human cases of H5N1 avian influenza has raised concerns about the spread of the disease in Vietnam, the Ministry of Health has said.

All six students who are all 10th graders from Hanoi have won medals, including one silver and five bronze, at the 20th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) in Thailand.

Throughout the history, Vietnam has shown the world that it has always focused on the people in all development policies.

The multidimensional poverty rate in Vietnam will reduce to 2.93% in 2023, a drop of 1.1 percentage points compared to last year, according to the Government’s report on the implementation of the national programme on sustainable poverty reduction.

VOV.VN - The northern region of Vietnam is expected to experience the strongest cold this winter this weekend after warm weekdays, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Vietnam was elected as the Vice Chair of the UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage on December 8 during the committee's 18th session in Kasane, Botswana.

Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang has visited and presented gifts to Madeleine Riffaud, a French revolutionary and former journalist of the French newspaper L'Humanité, and a close friend of the Vietnamese people.

VOV.VN - National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue cut the ribbon launching the Vietnam Town in Thailand's northeastern Udon Thani province on December 9, with the site being the first in Thailand and the world.

The national steering committee for natural disaster prevention and control held a meeting with international partners in Hanoi on December 8, highlighting the role of early warning and early action in natural disaster risk mitigation.

Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have signed an administrative deal on the implementation of a bilateral agreement on social insurance.

VOV.VN - A new road connecting Hoang Mai district's administrative area to Tam Trinh street with a total investment capital of VND500 billion was recently put into operation, thereby helping to address traffic congestion in the southeast area of the capital.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan on December 7 emphasised that the entire political system, organisations and individuals have joined hands in childcare activities when she chaired a meeting of the National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) Sponsorship Council.

Border guards in Vietnam's Lao Cai province and their counterparts from Mengzi of China’s Yunnan province on December 7 held a meeting to review their bilateral patrols that have been resumed since November this year.

An international conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL) is being held in Hanoi from December 7-9 themed “International Cooperation towards Excellence in Training and Research”.

The Prime Minister recently approved a plan on bringing into play resources of overseas Vietnamese (OVs) to serve national development in the new context.

Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital, the leading medical facility in the south, said on December 6 that it has successfully produced two new radioactive drugs used to diagnose, monitor and treat prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumors.

The International Press Workshop “Digital Newsrooms Management: Theory, Practice, Experience in the ASEAN Region” was held by the Vietnam Journalists’ Association in Hanoi on December 7.

VOV.VN - Vietnam wishes to increase cooperation with Switzerland in the fields of pharmaceuticals manufacturing and technology transfer, health Minister Dao Hong Lan told Swiss Ambsssador Thomas Gass at a reception in Hanoi on December 7.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has required airlines to build plans to increase flights and arrange night flights to meet the travel needs of people during the 2014 New Year and Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays based on existing aviation infrastructure and security and safety work.

A seminar was held in Hanoi on December 6 to provide Vietnamese teachers and students with information about Australia’s education as well as its experience in vocational training.

VOV.VN - So far nine flights have been conducted to bring home 1,020 Vietnamese nationals stuck in war zones in northern Myanmar, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).

Measures to tackle water resource-related challenges in Vietnam were discussed at a workshop held in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on December 6.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Public Security has dispatched a working group to Myanmar in order to support the repatriation of Vietnamese citizens who have been stranded in the conflict zone in northern Myanmar.

VOV.VN - A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on archival co-operation for 2024 was signed on December 6 at a ceremony in Hanoi by Dang Thanh Tung, director of the State Archives and Records Department, and Thongchanh Keosenhom, director of the National Archives Department under the Laos Ministry of Home Affairs.

The south central provinces of Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan, home to the art of pottery making of Cham ethnic people, have been taking steps to preserve and bring into play the value of this UNESCO-recognised intangible cultural heritage at the same time with developing community-based tourism.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) on December 4 presented the Medal “For Peace and Friendship Among Nations” to Ben Chapman, Warwick Morris and Paul Smith, the co-founders of the Vietnam-UK Network (VUKN), to honour their outstanding contributions to the relations between the two countries.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue met with representatives from the Vietnamese community in Laos on December 5, in the framework of his working trip to Laos to attend the first Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Parliamentary Summit.