VOV.VN - More than 100 Access students, teachers, English language fellows, and United States Mission staff from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are set to convene in Lao Cai for a five-day Summit aimed at supporting learning and promoting cultural exchanges.

VOV.VN - Enterovirus 71 (EV71), a virus which most commonly causes hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), has once again been detected in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the municipal Department of Health on June 1.

Nine Vietnamese universities have been listed in the THE Impact Rankings 2023 released by the Times Higher Education (THE) on June 1.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the Netherlands Pham Viet Anh hosted a reception for a delegation from the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) led by its permanent Vice President Do Thi Thu Thao.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha stressed the need to incentivise the conversion of fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric vehicles and other types of clean energy.

German journalist Hellmut Kapfenberger has introduced his new book, which is a collection of writings and photos about the war in Vietnam in 1972 that the author gathered when he worked as a resident correspondent of ADN News Agency of the German Democratic Republic and Neues Deutschland Newspaper in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention (PA05) under the Ministry of National Security announced on June 1 that they had arrested three Korean nationals wanted by INTERPOL in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Vietnamese Student Association in the Netherlands (VSNL) has recently held a career fair at the headquarters of the Vietnamese Embassy in the European country.

The Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU), the Health Ministry’s Fund for Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms and the Global Public Health Organisation Vital Strategies held a symposium in Hanoi on May 31 to discuss the harmful effects of e-cigarettes in schools.

VOV.VN - The United States Mission to Vietnam, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and Government of Vietnam partners, including the National Action Center for Chemical and Environmental Treatment (NACCET), on May 31 launched the second phase of USAID’s flagship disabilities project, INCLUSION, in Binh Dinh and Kon Tum provinces.

After receiving numerous opinions on the amendment of fire safety regulations, the Ministry of Construction recently requested a review and revision of the national technical standards for fire safety in buildings and construction projects.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) on May 31 asked agencies to pilot the use of level 2 electronic identification (eID) authentication for air passengers at airports nationwide from June 1.

Amid the increasing use of tobacco, especially e-cigarettes, Vietnam has rolled out measures to minimise tobacco harms.

VOV.VN - Along with traditional co-operation, Vietnam and the Netherlands boast great potential for further linkages in new fields such as developing renewable energy and forming a carbon market, according Dutch Ambassador in Vietnam Kees van Baar.

More than 100 press photos and materials involved Buddhist events published between 1963 and now are on display at an exhibition opened in Ho Chi Minh City on May 30.

A workshop to launch the “Training Curriculum on Counter-Trafficking and Victim Protection” and to wrap up the project “Frontline training for Border Guards in Border Areas of Vietnam”, funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the US Department of State was held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on May 30.

Cooperation between localities of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) has seen the engagement of not only authorities but also businesses and people, heard a seminar in Seoul on May 30.

A Child Rights and Business Forum was organised in Hanoi on May 30 by UNICEF Vietnam and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), emphasising the need for responsible business practices that respect child rights and prevent adverse human rights impacts.

The south central province of Binh Thuan is raising public awareness in the fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and the implementation of the 2017 Fisheries Law.

VOV.VN - An international workshop was held in Hanoi on May 30 to examine opportunities and challenges to female security and police officers in UN peacekeeping missions.

Hanoi police have warned people against illegal foreign exchange trading platforms on the internet which have swindled many out of their money.

Thanks to the implementation of the strategic orientations of the Party and the State, Vietnam’s energy industry with three pillars of oil and gas, coal and electricity has developed strongly, serving socio-economic development as well as people's everyday life, a seminar heard on May 29.

VOV.VN - The Prime Minister is scheduled to chair a meeting of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control this week in order to examine if Vietnam should declare an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan.

The People’s Committee of central Quang Nam province on May 29 hosted a reception for a delegation of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) led by Chairman of its Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Committee Grant Townsend Coates.

The first-ever Vietnam NASA Space Week will be held in Ho Chi Minh City and Hau Giang and Binh Dinh provinces in the South from June 5-9, heard a press conference on May 29.

More than 77,000 computers in Vietnam have suffered data encryption since December 2022, according to Bkav – a leading Vietnamese technology corporation that specialises in cyber security and software.

VOV.VN - Six Vietnamese students have secured four silver and two bronze medals at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad 2023 (APIO 2023) which was virtually held by China from May 20-22.

VOV.VN - Sixty out of 437 Vietnamese nationals rescued by the Philippine authorities from a suspected human trafficking ring returned to Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport on May 30 morning.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) will pilot the use of level 2 electronic identification (eID) authentication for air passengers at airports nationwide from June 1 to August 1, it said in its recent report sent to the Ministry of Transport.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Embassy of Japan in Vietnam have handed over six electric trucks to the People's Committee of Hue city to use for waste collection, helping the green transformation and carbon and methane reduction of the transport sector.