A pictorial book titled “50-year implementation of President Ho Chi Minh’s testament (1969-2019)” has been introduced to the public.

Over 400 scholars worldwide are attending the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Regional Convening 2019 in Hanoi from August 12 – 15. 

Police in the northern border province of Son La have arrested three Chinese men who killed a taxi driver to rob his car. 

UK police in North Yorkshire county said on August 13 that Vietnamese teenager Le Thi Dieu Linh, 15, who went missing during a visit to York on August 6, has been found safe and well. 

Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh, who is also Chairwoman of the National Fund for Vietnamese Children Sponsorship Council, on August 13 presented 200 million VND (8,600 USD) to storm victims in the central province of Thanh Hoa.   

A seminar on pooling ideas for the green development of Hanoi based on international and domestic experiences took place in the capital city on August 13.

The Ministry of Health and Japan’s International University of Health and Welfare (IUHW) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on human resources development for the sector in Hanoi on August 13. 

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) has decided to offer Central Highlands and southern localities that were affected by the recent torrential rains and floods more than 600 million VND (25,800 USD) to help them overcome difficulties.

About 5.6 percent of Vietnamese children are at risk of trafficking, and only 2.8 percent of them confirmed they were victims of human trafficking, according to the latest research announced on August 13 by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs’ Institute of Labour and Social Affairs (ILSA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - With the Krong Ana river rising due to localised flooding on August 13, it has hastened the collapse of significant parts of the sea dyke system which is in place in Quang Dien commune of Krong An district in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, threatening the lives and crops of residents.

VOV.VN - A section of a ceramic mosaic mural on Nghi Tam street in Hanoi, supported by Taiwan Excellent, was recently introduced to people in the capital.

A mass wedding was held on August 12 in Ho Chi Minh City for 41 couples with disabilities.

VOV.VN - The recent levels of torrential rain and flooding which have devastated parts of the Central Highlands region and left 10 dead have been the worst to hit the area since September 2009.

Vietnamese combat engineers finished in third place the very first time they participated in the International Army Games.  

Buddhist followers and Vietnamese families often offer vegetarian meal including congee or porridge, salt, rice, among others and burn votive personal belongings and money to feed the destitute spirits or to help wandering souls find their way back home.

VOV.VN - The 45th World Skills Competition will begin on August 16 in Kazan, Russia, where Vietnamese contestants will show off their vocational skills in 19 professions with the goal of earning as many medals as possible.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society’s chapter in the southern province of Tay Ninh has organised free health checkups for and delivered relief aid to about 500 poor Cambodians of the Vietnamese origin and Cambodians on August 11 and 12.

It is crucial to design special policies for ethnic minority community, especially women, to access equal opportunities, stated head of the Party Central Committee’s Mass Mobilisation Commission Truong Thi Mai.

A Senegalese man was arrested at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City for trafficking nearly 1.6 kg of cocaine he had swallowed, the customs office at the airport announced on August 12. 

The Ministry of Health will hold a nationwide teleconference to launch a campaign on cutting the sector’s use of plastic products on August 16.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) Central Committee on August 12 presented nearly 300 million VND (12,900 USD) as urgent relief aid to 98 flood-affected households in Dinh Quan district, the southern province of Dong Nai. 

Information of medicines as well as their producers and distributers is now available on the website drugbank.vn - the first drug and medicine databank in Vietnam, which was launched by the Ministry of Health’s Drug Administration of Vietnam (DAV) in Hanoi on August 12.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City wishes for further coordination with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in coping with challenges in urban transport, infrastructure construction and waste treatment so as to ensure sustainable development and improve locals’ living standards.

VOV.VN - The first death caused by dengue fever has been reported in the southern province of Dong Nai, according to Phan Van Phuc, head of the Dong Nai Centre for Disease Control on August 12.

Authorities in Phu Quoc said the island must find a permanent solution to its flooding problem after it experienced the worst flooding in its history this month.

Vietnamese students’ achievements at int’l olympiads

The tank team of the Vietnam People’s Army beat Tajikistan, Myanmar and Uganda, ranking first in the semi-final round of Group 2 of the “Tank biathlon” event on August 11 at the ongoing Army Games 2019 in Russia.

VOV.VN - The Sai Dong industrial park, a plant which spans a total area of 1,000 square metres in Hanoi, was destroyed after a large fire hit the premises at 9am on August 11.

As of June, more than 500 containers of waste which failed to meet Vietnam’s import requirements had been re-exported this year, said the Vietnam Maritime Administration on August 11.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to treat garbage buried at three non-active landfills, the municipal People’s Committee has said.