VOV.VN - Bjorn Andersson, regional director of Asia and the Pacific of UNFPA, applauded Vietnamese efforts on October 4 in addressing the preference for sons and gender-biased sex selection over the last 15 years.

VOV.VN - Residents of the mountainous district of Ky Son in the central province of Nghe An have returned home to retrieve their belongings and assess the damage done to the local area following a series of devastating flash floods.

Vietnam’s leading ICT company FPT Software has launched a new subsidiary, FPT Semiconductor, marking a key milestone for the company as it enters the booming semiconductor industry.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health confirmed on October 3 that a woman returning from Dubai has infected with the monkeypox virus, the first case recorded in Vietnam so far.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has recorded its first case of monkeypox, a global public health emergency that has so far affected tens of thousands of people in over 70 countries worldwide, Tang Chi Thuong, director of the city's Department of Health, reported at a meeting on October 3.

VOV.VN - Heavy rain and severe flooding had left at least eight people dead in central Vietnam, the National Steering Committee on Natural Disasters Prevention and Control reported on October 2 afternoon.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in the northern province of Hung Yen on October 1 in response to the Action Month for the Vietnamese Elderly, on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons.

A helicopter from the Vietnam Helicopter Corporation on October 2 took eight crewmen aboard China’s Wu Zhou 8 ship from Con Dao island district to Vung Tau hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau for further treatment, as suggested by the Chinese Embassy.

President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society Central Committee Bui Thi Hoa visited and handed relief to victims hit by the recent storm in Binh Son district, the central province of Quang Ngai.

Vietnam’s Foreign Trade University (FTU) has won the Emerging Change Agent award for the second consecutive year at the Social Business Creation (SBC) competition.

Chief of the Ministry of Public Security’s Office, Lieut. Gen. To An Xo provided more information about the progress of investigations on curruption cases, during the Government’s regular press conference in Hanoi on October 1.

The youth authorities of Hanoi has planned a mass wedding ceremony for 30 couples on October 15 and 16.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRSC) will send emergency aid worth VND330 million (US$13,830) in cash and kind to help flood victims in the two central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh.

Nine critical ill sailors in a suspected food poisoning case on a Chinese vessel have been saved after being taken to the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, said a local health official.

More than 1,300 Shan Tuyet tea plants in Ha Giang province and a group of valuable timber trees in Dak Nong province have been recognised as “Vietnam Heritage Trees”.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue attended a ceremony on October 1 in the southeastern province of Binh Phuoc to announce the establishment of Chon Thanh town in the province.

VOV.VN - A prolonged spell of torrential rain following Typhoon Noru has damaged several key routes to mountainous areas in the central province of Quang Nam, causing hundreds of households to be isolated.

The Thai Embassy in Hanoi and the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) on September 30 co-organised a ceremony to inaugurate the Thai Room at the academy's campus.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a dispatch requesting ministries, sectors and localities to focus on addressing the consequences of typhoon Noru, the fourth to enter the East Sea this year, and take active measures to respond to possible natural disasters.

The potential for co-processing waste, including non-recyclable plastic, as an alternative fuel in the cement industry in Vietnam is huge.

Former Deputy Health Minister Truong Quoc Cuong has had his sentence reduced to three years from four years for showing “lack of responsibility causing serious consequences” over the trading of counterfeit medicine labelled as Health 2000 Canada.

An international seminar took place in Hanoi on September 30 to discuss ways to develop human resources for the realisation of Vietnam’s net-zero emissions commitment.

The Politburo on September 30 decided to give a warning to Bui Nhat Quang, President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), as a disciplinary measure for his wrongdoings as the head of the Standing Board of the Party Committee of the VASS in the 2015-2020 and 2020-2025 tenures.

VOV.VN - Many international visitors joined hands to help residents in Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam collect garbage and clear mud following the devastation caused by the recent impact of Typhoon Noru, impressing grateful locals in the process.

A workshop on building common development strategies for higher education was held at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in Belgium on September 29, attracting representatives of eight Vietnamese and Cambodian universities and the Francophone University Agency (AUF).

VOV.VN - A series of floods and landslides in the aftermath of Typhoon Noru have caused thousands of households throughout the central region to become isolated.

The High-Level People’s Court in Hanoi on September 29 held an appeal trial over the trading of counterfeit medicine labelled as Health 2000 Canada involving former Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong.

Vietnamese and Lao education-training leaders, representatives from 50 universities and 55 agencies as well as teachers and students gathered at a forum in Vientiane on September 29 to discuss cooperation between the two countries in enhancing training quality.

VOV.VN - Six unidentified bodies were discovered on September 29 washed up on a beach in Phu Quoc in the southern province of Kien Giang.

VOV.VN - Typhoon Noru that battered central Vietnam on September 28 has left at least 60 people injured in provinces from Nghe An to Binh Dinh and two Central Highland provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum.