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.

Salinity and droughts will come earlier and be more severe than in the 2018-2019 dry season in the Mekong Delta, according to Hoang Phuc Lam, Vice Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

British police are investigating the case of a Vietnamese girl who reportedly went missing in the shopping district of York city, the UK, on August 6.

The first Buddhist cultural centre of the Vietnamese community in Most city of Ustecky region, the Czech Republic, has been upgraded to the provincial level.

Border guards in the central province of Nghe An on August 11 arrested a man suspected of running a human trafficking ring that sells women abroad.

VOV.VN - The maritime search and rescue force has successfully saved six fishermen from a sinking boat in the waters off the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.

VOV.VN - Heavy rain and flooding in the provinces of Dak Nong, Dak Lak, Dong Nai, and Lam Dong over the past few days have claimed 10 lives, submerged nearly 3,900 homes, and forced more than 1,400 residents to evacuate.

Phu Quoc International Airport in the southern province of Kien Giang has been re-opened after being closed for many hours on August 9 due to severe inundation.

Vietnam ranked 50th out of 175 countries on the Global Cybersecurity Index (CGI) in 2018, up 50 places from the previous year, according to a report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Heavy and prolonged rains have claimed five lives and caused economic losses totaling 135 billion VND (over 5.8 million USD) in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, according to the provincial Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue.

The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) held an art exchange programme in Hanoi on August 10 with the theme “You are not left alone”.

Recent heavy rains in the southern province of Dong Nai have claimed two lives and caused economic losses totaling hundreds of billion VND.

A programme encouraging young people to share their viewpoints on educational reform was held in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on August 11, in celebration of the International Youth Day 2019.

Many farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh have escaped poverty by adapting to climate change and shifting from rice to maize or peanut cultivation as well as the breeding of goats and aquatic species. 

Vietnam won two gold medals, one silver and one bronze at the 2019 International Informatics Olympiad (IOI 2019), which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from August 4-8, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Four tourists drowned to their death and two others are still missing when swimming in the sea in Dat Lanh tourism site in La Gi town, the central province of Binh Thuan, on August 10.

At enterprises in Vietnam, it is still common to see a senior manager or human resources manager doubling as that company's trade union chairman.

The National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center issued a back- to- back heatwave warning in the Northern and Central regions in this weekend and the next week.

A Japanese expert was so confident about the Japanese bio-nanotechnology treatment in Hanoi’s polluted To Lich River that he took a swim.