President Truong Tan Sang has praised the procuracy sector for its important contributions to protecting justice as well as the legitimate rights of the State and people.

The Government has issued a resolution to speed up the realisation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on health care in Vietnam, according to the Government Portal.

(VOV) - Association of Vietnamese Cities (ACVN) General Secretary Vu Thi Vinh has led a delegation to the ASEAN DELGOSEA local governance conference in Bangkok on January 15-16.

(VOV) - Six dead bodies of miners have been pulled out of a coal pit in Quang Ninh province after suffocating in a fire 100m deep underground on January 15.

(VOV) - The Vietnam-UK Network Chairman Ben Chapman has praised the sustainable development of the network over the past year as a contribution to developing bilateral relations between the two nations.

(VOV) -A three-month old baby boy from the Central Highland city of Da Lat died on January 15 after receiving a Quinvaxem vaccination a day earlier.

(VOV) -A Vietnamese bride living in Korea has been killed by her Korean husband, who then committed suicide, leaving behind a five-month old baby.

A US$6.28 million project to improve sanitation and hygiene in Bac Giang, Thai Nguyen, Binh Dinh and Ben Tre provinces commenced in Hanoi on January 15.

(VOV) -Police in the northern border Quang Ninh province have arrested three people for their suspected participation in a scheme to illegally transport synthetic drugs.

The governments of Vietnam and France signed the second financial protocol on a project to purchase equipment for the Can Tho General Hospital in the Mekong Delta, at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 15.

Mekong Delta Bac Lieu province has asked for the Indian Institute of Public Administration to offer assistance in training local government staff in agricultural development, urban management and e-governance.

Practical initiatives and new ideas of the community are being sought to enhance transparency, public integrity and accountability and reduce corruption in Vietnam, heard a conference in northern Thai Nguyen province on January 15.

(VOV) - Northern Thai Nguyen province hosted a January 15 conference introducing the 2014 Vietnam Anti-Corruption Initiative (VACI 2014) programme.

(VOV) -Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam, Hiroshi Fukada, signed an agreement on January 15 to donate nearly US$820,000 in non-refundable aid to seven projects in Vietnam.

(VOV) - An online Korean classroom has been put into operation at the Hanoi University for Foreign Studies affiliated to the Vietnam National University, according to the Korea Foundation.

(VOV) - Deputy Minister of Defence and Navy Command Admiral Nguyen Van Hien hosted a ceremony on January 15, to receive the HQ 182-Hanoi submarine at Cam Ranh port in coastal Khanh Hoa province.

Danish Ambassador to Vietnam John Nielsen has been presented an insignia in recognition of his contributions to Vietnam’s planning and investment sector.

(VOV) - The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) will present 1 million gifts worth VND300,000 each to poor families in the lead up to the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

(VOV) -American war veteran John Wast on January 14 returned a hat belonging to Bui Duc Hung, a Vietnamese soldier who died in the struggle against the US, to his family in Phu Tho province.

(VOV) -A shutdown of the Sadovod market in Moscow by Russian authorities may result in a large number of oversea Vietnamese traders losing their jobs.

(VOV) - Three Vietnamese have been sentenced to death for their participation in a trans-national drug trafficking ring from Vietnam to China.

The Prime Minister has approved the Vietnam National Strategy on Pharmacy till 2020, with a vision for 2030.

The Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in Quang Binh province has received three stump-tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides) for further care and eventual release into nature.

The court sector managed to complete 364,819 out of the total 395,415 cases the national court system received in 2013, a Supreme People’s Court conference heard on January 14.

(VOV) - The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and the World Bank (WB) on January 14 signed a US$ 250 million credit to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the road asset management and maintenance practices in Vietnam.

(VOV) - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has introduced its 2014–2018 Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for Vietnam, designed to help strengthen the US-Vietnam comprehensive partnership.

Vietnam will host for the first time a congress of the Asian Australian Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology in central Danang city from March 25 to 28.

(VOV) - PM Nguyen Tan Dung and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen attended the January 14 ground-breaking ceremony for a bridge linking the two countries’ localities.

(VOV) - The Embassy of Canada on January 14 announced a grant of CAD 24,448 (about VND500 million) through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives 2013-2014 for Health Bridge Canada’s project “Protecting the rights of domestic workers”.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Health (MoH) has issued an action plan to guard against a strain of avian flu virus H7N9 which is spreading across neighbouring China.