The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) will spend 30% of its budget and personnel on irregular inspections of suspected environmental violations this year, said MONRE deputy chief inspector Le Vu Tuan Anh.

The number of people living in poor districts who have taken up offers to work abroad remains very low.

Border guards in the central province of Quang Binh said they had captured three Lao nationals who were smuggling 24,000 methamphetamine pills into Vietnam.

President of the Audit Commission (AC) of Japan Teruhiko Kawato has suggested Vietnam and Japan elevate bilateral audit cooperative relations to a new height.

Analysts still believe that Spotify will have a hard time succeeding in Vietnam, where people usually sign up for free music websites. But others believe they will prosper as their free and paid services offer the same quality of music. 

Of all the people in the world that Vietnamese people admire the most, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II stand in top, a new survey has found.

Hailstones accompanied by whirlwinds rained down on many places in Muong Khuong district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, in the early morning of April 15.

Micro Dragon, a satellite made by Vietnamese engineers, is expected to be launched into space in late 2018, according to the Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

 The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications, in collaboration with the BKAV Technology Group, will organise WhiteHat Drill 05, a network safety rehearsal, on May 9 to tackle the coin-miner virus.

Fireworks will light up the sky of Ho Chi Minh City later this month to celebrate 43 years of the South Liberation and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975) and the 132nd May Day (May 1, 1886).

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to create a set of criteria for building model rural residential areas, gardens and farm households to submit to the Government as soon as possible. 

VOV.VN - Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups, with the Kinh being the majority and the other groups making up 14% of the national population of 90 million people. The country has ensured human rights, including the right to equality among ethnic groups. 

Australian Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources David Littleproud, who was on his first-ever visit to Vietnam, showcased his cooking skills during a stop in Ho Chi Minh City on April 13.

Vietnam's largest city Ho Chi Minh is seeking to forward its plan for expansion and easing traffic congestion by building underground.

VOV.VN - Over the years, vocational training and employment support for disadvantaged young people in Vietnam has received attention from administrations at all levels, businesses, and said organizations. 

The Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on April 13-14 visited and delivered greetings to local Khmer monks, nuns and people on the occasion of their New Year Festival - Chol Chnam Thmay.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong visited the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on April 13-14 to inspect its socio-economic performance and Party and political system building. 

VOV.VN - Police in the central province of Thua Thien Hue have arrested a local man who was caught in possession of 200 pills of synthetic drug. 

VOV.VN - On April 14, three workers were killed and one injured while constructing an embankment in Duyen Hai ward, in the northern province of Lao Cai. 

VOV.VN - A tornado accompanied by heavy rains unroofed 100 houses in Ea Sup town and neighbouring communes of Ea Sup district in Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on April 13.             

Tay Bac University, a public higher education institution in the northern mountainous province of Son La, held a celebration of Bunpimay Festival for its Lao students on April 13.

Staff at a Ho Chi Minh City medical center have been walking out due to low pay, the center's director has said.

A conference took place in Hanoi on April 13 to review the support programme in response to climate change. 

Three early stage startups from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, and three more mature teams originating from outside the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have won prizes in the Mekong Agritech Challenge (MATCh).

The Vietnam Meat Industries JSC (VISSAN), one of Vietnam’s largest food producers, on April 13 launched a training project on slaughtering skills, aiming to improve the local slaughtering capacity and hygiene.

The Chinese Embassy in Vietnam met with local reporters in Hanoi on April 13 to brief them about the country’s major internal and external policies after meetings of the 13th National People’s Congress and the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

A seminar was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 13 to launch a 2018 Project to Support the Planning and Implementation of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (SPI-NAMA). 

The northern mountainous province of Cao Bang has been recognised to have met standards on education universalisation and illiteracy eradication in 2017. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved partial adjustments to the Hanoi Capital Region Construction Master Plan until 2030 with a vision to 2050.

VOV.VN - At 9:30am on April 13, two 45-seater buses collided while en route to Cam Pha bus station in the northern Quang Ninh province, injuring 14 passengers.