The national steering committee for search and gathering of martyr remains held a meeting on December 18 to review the implementation of a plan on searching and gathering martyr remains (also called Plan 1237) this year.

In May, Tran Thien An from the southern province of Bac Lieu was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a 12-year-old he met via the internet.

Huynh Huu Canh and his cousin were digging up an iron object one day when a bomb left over from the war exploded, killing his cousin and leaving Canh, then in the fourth grade, blind.

Widespread water pollution nationwide has inflicted an estimated economic loss of VND11.6 trillion (US$510.7 million) in the last ten years and the situation is not getting better, an environmental expert says.

Vietnam has an increasing incidence of respiratory diseases, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) repeatedly issuing warnings that it is among the most air-polluted countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to health experts.

Next year, Vietnam expects to produce and provide a sufficient supply of vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease, an infectious and sometime fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including cattle and pigs, as heard at a conference in Hanoi on December 18.

The Vietnam – Cambodia Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Cooperation Forum took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on December 18. 

The Board of Directors of the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$150 million loan to improve economic connectivity and living standards in four northeastern provinces of Vietnam via upgrading basic infrastructure and services. 

Cyber security will be difficult to maintain next year as hackers use smarter and more sophisticated technology to make attacks, Nguyen Thanh Hung, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, has said.

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung has offered condolences to families of Vietnamese workers who were killed in a fire at the dormitory of a company in Taoyuan city of China’s Taiwan on December 14.

VOV.VN - The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting announced that tropical storm Kai-tak reached the East Sea at noon on December 18, becoming the 15th storm in the East Sea this year. 

A celebration to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army Day (December 22) was held on December 17 in Prague by the Vietnamese War Veterans Association in the Czech Republic.

VOV.VN -Hanoians are braving the cold weather as the temperature drops down to a chilly 10 degrees Celsius.

Unsustainable livelihoods, including the chopping down of protective forests for agricultural production and building houses near streams and rivers, have increased risks of natural disasters, officials admitted at a recent meeting.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Hai Bang has praised dynamics, creativity and enthusiasm of most Vietnamese students in Thailand, considering the Vietnamese student association a useful and practical playground for nearly 700 Vietnamese students in Thailand.

VOV.VN -At around 8:40 pm on December 17, a large fire broke out at a foam rubber production workshop located at 141 Phan Anh street, Tan Phu district, Ho Chi Minh City, causing huge damage.

VOV.VN - The British Council IELTS Prize 2017/18 invites applications from students who plan to begin undergraduate or postgraduate studies locally or overseas in the 2018 academic year.   

Over-fishing is fast depleting Quang Ninh’s marine resources, but the northeastern province has not been able to tackle it effectively.

The first phase of the first waste treatment and organic fertilizer production complex of the central province of Binh Thuan was completed and put into operation on December 16.

Vietnamobile has become the fifth operator licensed to provide 4G services in Vietnam, baodautu.vn reported.

Tam Diep city in the northern province of Ninh Binh has received a Prime Minister’s decision recognising that the locality has completed all criteria of the new-style rural area building programme.

Two companies involved in an illegal case of hazardous waste landfill in central Ha Tinh province have been fined a total VND1 billion or US$44,000.

Using iodine in salt, a health step long enforced in Western countries, cannot by itself improve iodine shortages in Vietnamese people, experts agreed at a conference held last week in Hanoi.

Team CLGTftMeePwn of Vietnam won the first prize at the WhiteHat Grand Prix 2017 cyber security competition, which took place in Hanoi on December 16-17 under the theme “Vietnam Heritages”.

Thousands of freelancers are hurrying to join tourism and tour guide associations as the membership will give them opportunities to practice as legal tour guides.

How to raise the living standards of people residing in the Laos-Vietnam-Cambodia (CLV) Development Triangle was the main theme of a conference in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on December 17. 

Delegates to the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Triangle Development Area’s Youth Forum signed the forum’s Joint Statement at the end of their one-day meeting in the southern province of Binh Phuoc on December 17.

A pedagogy university in Ho Chi Minh City is struggling financially after implementing a tuition-free policy issued twenty years ago.

Cambodian Secretary of State at the Ministry of Cults and Religions Touch Sarom led a delegation to visit the southern province of Soc Trang on December 17. 

To mark the signing MoU with Vietnam’s privately-run Vinmec Healthcare System, Terri Bresenham, president and CEO of GE Healthcare in South Asia, Africa, and Southeast Asia, talked with VIR about the challenges of the Vietnam healthcare system.