Chairman of the Quang Ninh province People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Long gave his nod to Hai Au Aviation’s proposal of launching a seaplane flight route from Ha Long city to Co To island.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) hopes to reduce social insurance debt to below 3% of its full-year collection plan for this year, heard a conference held in Hanoi on November 15.

While housing developers in Ho Chi Minh City are looking for occupants for over 15,000 apartments they have built, the city's authorities said more such apartments are needed to resettle people moved out of their houses for various reasons.

The Government has decided to abolish the decades-old household registration book system.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An has said the Cambodian government applauds efforts and contributions by VOV in implementing the Vietnamese government projects on building transmitting stations for Cambodia. 

The 9th ASEAN Regional Climate Outlook Forum (ASEANCOF-9) convened in Hanoi on November 15.

The Lawrence S. Ting Memorial Fund and the Child Protection Fund of the central province of Quang Binh on November 14 presented 96 wheelchairs to people with disabilities across the province.

The Hanoi-based Foreign Trade University (FTU) inaugurated an office for international cooperation in Japan on November 14, the first of its kind set up by a Vietnamese university in the northeast Asian country.

The 15th ASEAN Food Conference (AFC), themed "Food Science and Technology: Integration for ASEAN Economic Community Sustainable Development", opened in Ho Chi Minh City on November 15.

Domestic waste management and treatment has been a pressing issue for rural areas in Vietnam for many years.

Nearly 16ha of natural forests in Canh Thuan commune, Van Canh district, the central province of Binh Dinh, were recently chopped down, according to a report of the provincial forest protection branch.

Fifteen teams from around the world were selected to pitch their smart cities solutions for Vietnam at the Smart City Innovation Challenge (SCIC) Demo Day in Hanoi on November 13.

Vietnam’s national energy development plan does not include geothermal sources, but a senior official has said that it was time to study their potential in the country.

VOV.VN - Associate Professor Nguyen Ngoc Dien from the University of Economics and Law, Vietnam, will be admitted to the French Academy of Overseas Sciences on November 17, according to the University of Economics and Law under the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. 

A Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monument was inaugurated in Steung Treng city of the province of the same name on November 15 after one year of restoration.

Although Hanoi is one of the country’s biggest cities, its system for removing broken-down vehicles from crowded roads is ineffective, traffic users and experts said.

Experience in administrative decentralisation was shared among Vietnamese and Moroccan law experts at a ​seminar held in Hanoi on November 14.

VOV.VN - Ajinomoto Scholarship Foundation and the Study Promotion Association of southeastern Dong Nai province have granted 200 scholarships totally worth VND 220 million to disadvantaged students in the province.

The Luxembourg Government has pledged 2 million EUR in non-refundable aid to support the central province of Thua Thien-Hue’s climate change response project through the Global Climate Partnership Fund.

VOV.VN - US President Donald Trump has uploaded a 44-second video clip ‘Thank you Asia’ on his Twitter which begins with the image of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Con Soc Cultural And Media Joint Stock Company will introduce 50 interesting copyrighted books at Hanoi Book Street on November 15-16. 

About 88% of the antibiotics in the cities are sold without a prescription and the number in the rural areas is even higher at 91%.

KinderWorld Education Group regards sustainability as a fundamental aspect of education investment and global standard human resources development in Vietnam.

The number of Vietnamese students in the US has increased for the 16th year in a row with more than 22,400 Vietnamese students attending American colleges and universities in the 2016-2017 academic year, a 5% increase from the previous year, new data shows.

Children at kindergartens in 41 out of 63 provinces and cities studied English in the 2016-2017 academic year, an increase of 20 areas compared to the 2013-2014 period, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

President Tran Dai Quang has urged lecturers and students of the Hanoi Medical University to increase their participation in scientific research, particularly those in emerging diseases.

A workshop was held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on November 13 to look into the outcomes of the trial remediation of dioxin using microbial technology at A Sho airfield in A Luoi district.

The eighth congress of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) will take place in Hanoi on November 21-22, with 1,250 delegates set to attend, heard a press briefing on November 13.

Ha Long city in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has issued a plan on intensifying measures to protect aquatic resources in Ha Long Bay - a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Site - during the 2017-2020 period.

President Tran Dai Quang attended the National Solidarity Festival 2017 in Tan Hung commune, Lang Giang district of the northern province of Bac Giang.