The Theoretical Council of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and the Lao National Council for Social Sciences signed a cooperation agreement in Hanoi on November 27. 

The Ministry of Education and Training recently proposed raising teachers’ salaries, but it’s unclear whether this will be approved given the small portion of the State budget spent on education, according to experts.

The ninth East Sea International Conference opened in Ho Chi Minh City on November 27, focusing on the theme “Cooperation for Regional Security and Development”.

The Prime Minister has approved a project on granting free radio sets to village elders and grassroots officials in mountainous areas, areas inhabited by ethnic minority communities, and border and disadvantaged regions.

A forum on reproductive and sexual health and rights of young people was held in Ha Long city, the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 27.

Hundreds of urban design projects in Hanoi have been put on the shelf for years, forcing many people whose homes would eventually disappear to live in misery.

The village of Phuoc Kieu in the central province of Quang Nam is a centrepiece of the region’s history, with a 400 year-old traditional trade of bronze casting.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Truong Van Dung’s family restaurant, located near An Nghiep Industrial Zone offers meals for just VND2,000. Poor people living in the area arrive to enjoy soup, a vegetable and meat, all steeply discounted from the usual price of VND15.000 - 20.000.

The People’s Court of Ha Tinh province on November 27 sentenced Nguyen Van Hoa, born in 1995, a resident of in Ky Khang commune, Ky Anh district, to seven years’ imprisonment for conducting propaganda against the State.

A publicity campaign was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on November 26 to encourage people to keep the city cleaner.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese actress and businesswoman Ly Nha Ky participated in a marathon at Dam Sen Cultural Park in Ho Chi Minh City on November 26 along with thousands of young people to raise funds for child cancer patients.

VOV.VN - An immense blaze broke out in Dinh Luu temple in Dong Phuong commune, Dong Hung district, the northern Thai Binh province at noon of November 27, destroying an area of the national historical relic site recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. 

The Vu A Dinh Scholarship Fund on November 27 held a ceremony to present scholarships to students of ethnic groups and children of naval soldiers and fishermen in the central coastal province of Phu Yen who were severely affected by storm Damrey.

The exhibition titled “Hoang Sa, Truong Sa of  Vietnam: Historical and legal evidence” is taking place at the 2nd Corp High Command in Luc Ngan district of the northern province of Bac Giang.

The Association of Vietnamese Cambodians in Mondolkiri province of Cambodia held its first congress in Sen Monourom city on November 25.

Innovative manufacturing is key to increasing productivity and sustainability as Vietnam confronts the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) challenges, experts said.

Lately, the Pediatrics Hospital No.1 and No.2 in Ho Chi Minh City have received many children suffering serious malaria from different districts. It is worth mentioning that malaria comeback is an abnormality because it has disappeared for years in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - A full range of Vietnam’s traditional products like silk cloth, fine arts and handicrafts, healthy drinks and special dishes were introduced at the International Christmas Fair on November 26 in Prague, the Czech Republic.

Nine chemistrical engineering students in Ho Chi Minh City have successfully managed to grow spirulina at home and are selling the know-how to enthusiasts.

Eleven teams of Lao students competed in an elocution contest in Vietnamese about Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi and the friendship between Vietnam and Laos in the city on November 26.

A project to turn Vietnam’s southern largest economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City into a smart city in 2017 -2020 was approved and publicly announced on November 26.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Tran Thanh Man extended Christmas greetings to Catholic dignitaries and followers in the diocese of Long Xuyen in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on November 26.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea (RoK) wants to work with Vietnam in holding inquires into aircraft accidents, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

In Vietnam, getting into a university has been described as a national obsession and getting admission seen as a cut-throat competition. 

More than US$1.6 million was donated at a fund-raising programme held by the Ho Chi Minh City chapter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Television on November 26.

Recent reports of emissions exceeding the permissible amount at Formosa steel mills in north-central Ha Tinh Province were the result of a raised capacity to evaluate the company’s emission treatment system, Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has said.

The capital city’s Hoan Kiem Lake is being dredged and cleaned from now to the end of the year, according to the Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Company Ltd.

Statistics from countries whose senior citizens continue working show no increase in unemployment rate of young workers, an official of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Vietnam said.

Forty photos portraying red-shanked doucs taken by Da Nang-based freelance photographer Le Phuoc Chin have been displayed at Ho Chi Minh City’s Book Pedestrian Street.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese government is gearing up a health insurance expansion scheme to cover the costs of treatment of HIV-infected people, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at a meeting on November 26 in the northern province of Hai Duong in response to World AIDS Day (December 1).