VOV.VN - Samsung Electronics Vietnam has conferred 600 scholarships worth VND600 million to underprivileged students with excellent academic records in three provinces of Bac Ninh, Thai Nguyen, and Bac Giang.

The 26th Vietnamese Information Technology (IT) Olympiad and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) for the Asian region opened in HCM City on December 6.

Police and border guards in the northern province of Quang Ninh have deported 52 Chinese nationals who entered the country with tourist visas but were later caught running an online shopping site.

The new Labor Minister, Pol Gen Adul Saengsingkaew, has asked his ministry officials to make the issue of migrant workers their first priority. 

The Central Steering Committee for External Information Service should work harder to instruct external information work, ensuring its timeliness and liveliness. 

Nine out of 11 initiatives on applying technologies to increase rice yield and reduce greenhouse gas emission were honoured at a ceremony held in Thai Binh city, the Red River Delta province of the same name, on December 6.

A conference on famle labourers and the role of trade union in the Asia-Pacific region was held in Hanoi on December 6 by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) in collaboration with the World Federation Trade Unions (WFTU).

Another vaccination centre was launched in Ho Chi Minh City’s Phu Nhuan district on December 6, aiming to meet the increasing demand of immunization of local people. 

VOV.VN - As many as 1,000 young participants, including visually-impaired people paired with sighted companions, have taken part in the “Run with me -2gether 2017” programme.

VOV.VN - The second ASEAN University Network (AUN) Student Affairs Network Meeting and the 6th ASEAN Student Leaders Forum opened at Ho Chi Minh City National University on December 6.

A variety of ornamental trees and birds from around the country are on display in an exhibition that opened on December 6 in Hanoi's outskirts district of Phuc Tho.

VOV.VN - The 111 national hotline, a free service for child protection, was launched in Hanoi on December 6 by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs.

Hanoi plans to construct a super satellite city by 2030, with a total area of over 17,270ha located in two districts of Thach That and Quoc Oai and Son Tay town.

A get-together was held by the HCM City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) and the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association of HCM City on December 6 to mark Japanese Emperor Akihito’s birthday (December 23, 2017).

A women's organization has opened a public forum to tell a story of woman victims of harassment which may result in an increased number of cases of unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection. 

The Metropolitan Electricity Authority has accelerated the project to remove power lines from roadside poles to underground lines on Sukhumvit road in order to create a beautiful scenery in such major business districts of Bangkok.

Vietnam’s national cancer control strategy needed to address the serious problem of infectious agents, which cause more than 20% of malignancies in the world, said Prof Nguyen Chan Hung, Chairman of the Vietnam Cancer Society.

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith recognised the support the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) has given to the Lao Ministry of Science and Technology and National Academy of Science (LNAS) while receiving VAST President Chau Van Minh on December 5 in Vientiane.

Head of the State Record Management and Archives Department under the Ministry of Home Affairs Dang Thanh Tung on December 5 received the honour Chevalier des Arts et des Letters (Knight of Arts and Letters) from the French Minister of Culture.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese national team won the championship title in all three categories (Top-Coder) at Digital Campus WeCode (WeCode 2017) held recently at Sunway College in Malaysia.

The Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship 2018 in Vietnam was launched on December 5 by the Ho Chi Minh Central Youth Union and IIG Vietnam, an organisation for testing and educational quality accreditation.

The Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) will continue to adopt conceiving-designing-implementing-operating (CDIO) as the framework for its member universities’ curriculum planning and outcome-based assessment until 2020.

The introduction of 4G and 5G will be important foundations for Vietnam’s digital economy.

 The Thai Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony in the city on December 5 to mark the 90th National Day of Thailand and the birthday of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

French businesses and organisations introduced technological solutions to smart urban development at a workshop held in Hanoi on December 5.

A national cooperation programme on sustainable employment for 2017-2021 between Vietnam and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) was signed in Hanoi on December 5.

A kindergarten built with funding granted by the US Pacific Command was inaugurated on December 5 in Quang Dien district in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Intel Vietnam - Malaysia on December 5 launched a joint effort to plant 7,000 trees at the Lang Sen Wetland Reserve of the Mekong Delta province of Long An.

People in the central province of Thua Thien - Hue have continued to receive support from organisations and agencies to overcome losses in recent floods.

The upgrade of 12 Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monuments in Cambodia has been completed while work is under way on three others under a joint project, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5.