The central province of Binh Dinh plans to spend VND24.5 billion (US$1.09 million) on a project to preserve biodiversity by 2025. 

Recent rapid construction of more than 20 hotels and resorts in Son Tra Nature Reserve is threatening the survival of highly endangered langurs and other wildlife.

The Prime Minister has recently granted approval for a national action plan to prevent, mitigate and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing until 2025.

The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched their cooperation programme for 2018 – 2019 in Hanoi on January 24.

HCM City has about 200 bridges in need of repair or replacement, 30 of which will be repaired by 2020, said Bui Xuan Cuong, director of the city’s Department of Transport.

The Ministry of Construction said on January 23 that  its adjusted construction master plan for the Ho Chi Minh City Zone to 2030 with a vision to 2050 had been approved by the Government last month.

Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) Mai Duc Chinh on January 23 received a visiting delegation of trade union staff from the US led by Director of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Labour Centre Kent Wong.

The number of out-of-school children aged from five to 14 has fallen significantly, particularly among five-year-old pre-primary children.

The Hanoi People’s Court on January 24 opened the trial for Trinh Xuan Thanh, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC), and his accomplices accused of “asset embezzlement” at PetroVietnam Power Land JSC (PVP Land). 

 Local law enforcement forces of the southernmost province of Ca Mau recently uncovered the illegal transportation of 114 pangolins, the Department of Forest Rangers said on January 23.

Adjustments of construction planning for the Ho Chi Minh City Region are expected to foster links among regional localities, thus promoting the growth of the region as well as the city’s role as a driver for development, said Deputy Minister of Construction Phan Thi My Linh.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Blood Bank, Blood Donation Centre and hospitals have organised blood donation programmes throughout the city for Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday to prepare for a possible shortage as more accidents occur during the period.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on January 24 visited and presented gifts to poor households and policy beneficiaries in the central province of Ha Tinh ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the country’s biggest national holidays. 

VOV.VN - The Lunar New Year festival or Tet is 3 weeks away. Trade Unions are now working with businesses to make sure employees have a happy Tet.

Last week, Vietnam received a warning on another 99 batches of baby formula products from French-based Lactalis over possible salmonella contamination, two months after the scandal-hit company ordered a global recall.

Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in central Vietnam in mid-September, causing multiple deaths and leaving around 1.5 million people without power.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment plans to improve waste and water management as well as land-use management this year.

Continue the biggest promotional program of the year “Enjoy Sky Festival”, Vietjet presents three golden days from January 24-26, 2018, offering 500,000 tickets priced from only 0 VND on website www.vietjetair.com,

 The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will cooperate with the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence to design and implement a project on dioxin remediation at Bien Hoa Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai. 

The An Giang provincial People’s Court on January 23 sent four men to jail for “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 2 of Article 88 of the 2009 Penal Code. 

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines plans to add two return flights between Hanoi and HCM City and Changzhou city, Jiangsu province, China, on January 27 when U23 Vietnam play a final match against Uzbekistan of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship. 

Seven teams of students from five universities in Vietnam will participate at Shell Eco-Marathon Asia (SMEA) 2018 – Make the Future, which will take place at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore from March 8-11.

VOV.VN -Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has applauded journalists' great efforts in imparting the Party and State’s guidelines and policies, especially the government's directives.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Chile said that it had contacted the Chilean Foreign Minister on January 22 requesting coordination to verify media reports on shark fins being dried on the roof of the Vietnamese Trade Office in Chile.

VOV.VN - Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company has launched a campaign for blood donation 2018 to mark its 11th anniversary in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese actress and businesswoman Ly Nha Ky has been busy undertaking charitable activities to help disadvantaged people in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Central Ha Tinh Province border guards, customs officers, and police cooperated in the arrest of two Lao nationals who had concealed 1 kg of methamphetamines at a hotel in the province.

The high-profile trial of Trinh Xuan Thanh, former Chairman of the PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC), and his accomplices, ended on January 22 after two weeks of sitting with strict and fair punishment that fit the wrongdoings and losses to the State caused by the defendants.

VOV.VN - Miss Vietnam World 2007 Ngo Phuong Lan and designer Ngoc Anh have held a fundraising event to provide support for poor children living in Dai Loc district, Quang Nam province.

The Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) on January 22 revealed that 16 international and social organisations in wildlife protection in Vietnam signed a letter calling on Vietnamese law enforcement agencies to strictly handle Nguyen Mau Chien, the suspected mastermind of a trans-national rhino horn trafficking ring.