Experts are warning against an outbreak of dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth disease as wet weather continues.

As many as 2,000 primary teachers and pupils in Hanoi joined officials and delegates from international organisations at a meeting held in the city on October 15 in response to Global Handwashing Day.

A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on October 15 to launch the campaign entitled “Screening for breast cancer at the age of 40”. 

The first ever Craft and Design Challenge Prize 2017 has been launched for Vietnam’s design students, young designers and entrepreneurs who either show an interest and ability in craft-based design or have experience running craft and design projects and businesses.

VOV.VN -By noon on October 15, tropical typhoon No.11 (International name Khanun) headed to north of China’s Hainan Island and is expected to change its direction when entering the Gulf of Tonkin.

VOV.VN- This year’s Lifetime Learning Week, themed “Learning to train personality and improve ourselves” has been launched nationwide. The drive is considered a basic educational reform solution towards a learning society.

VOV.VN -For 15 years, veteran Pham Duc Hanh of Dong Trieu town, Quang Ninh province, directed traffic on National Highway 18 to ensure smoother circulation.

Nearly 1,100 Lao students have been trained at the Thua Thien-Hue College of Education over the past 15 years under a bilateral agreement inked between the central province of Thua Thien-Hue and seven localities in Laos.

Vietnam and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) agreed a country programme framework for cooperation between 2017 and 2021 during a ceremony to mark the 37th World Food Day held in northern Bac Kan province on October 14.

Vietnamese Ambassador to the Czech Republic Ho Minh Tuan paid a visit to Usti Region on October 13 in an effort to foster ties between Vietnam and Czech localities.

VOV.VN - Sixty people are dead and 37 still missing following devastating flooding caused by a tropical depression affecting central and northern mountainous provinces of Vietnam.

The government and youth of Vietnam always accompany young people around the world, a Vietnamese official said at the Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Youth held in Moscow, Russia on October 12-13.

A World Bank (WB)’s technical working group led by water resources management expert Abedalrazq Khalil held a working session with authorities of southern Binh Duong province on October 13 to discuss a project on wastewater drainage and treatment in Di An town. 

The central city of Da Nang has basically completed logistics preparations for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week and related meetings slated for November, according to the municipal Department of External Affairs. 

VOV.VN - On October 13, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and staff of the Party Central Committee Office each donated one-day’s salary to support people affected by floods and landslides in the northern and central provinces.

Widespread floods triggered by a tropical depression over the past few days have killed 54 people as of 22:00 pm on October 12, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control. 

The Ho Chi Minh City Red Cross Society plans to deliver more than VND1 billion  (US$44,000) raised by its chapters at all levels for flood-hit residents in the northern provinces Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Son La, and Hoa Binh October 13.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent urgent notices to state agencies and administrations of cities and provinces affected by the tropical depression, directing responses to flooding in northern and central Vietnam.

Authorities of Can Tho and the World Bank held a training workshop on green infrastructure in the Mekong Delta city on October 12.

VOV.VN - More than 800 pupils and a large number of local people in the northern Dien Bien Province joined a meeting today (October 13) to mark World Handwashing Day (October 15). 

VOV.VN - Miss Vietnam 2016 Do My Linh has continued to work for a charity project while stuck in severe flooding in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai. 

 The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said Malaysia detained 10 Vietnamese fishermen on charges of illegally fishing in waters off Sarawak state.

VOV.VN - Natural disasters which have claimed the lives of more than 300 people are draining the economy of nearly US$1.3 billion every year. This figure is equal to 1-1.5% of GDP, according to Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.

VOV.VN - The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting announced that a tropical depression in the East Sea has strengthened into a tropical storm and is moving towards the East Sea. 

The Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP) has raised over VND1 trillion (US$46.46 million) from various community sources to help the poor over the past 25 years.

Devastating rains, floods, and landslides left 32 people dead and missing and nine others injured in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh as of 7 am on October 13.

The on-time performance record of domestic Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Jetstar Pacific and Vasco in September was 17,624 flights, accounting for 86.3 percent of the total flights, up 1.6 points year on year.

 A centre for visa application to Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, which form the Visegrád Group, became operational in Ho Chi Minh City on October 12.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) on October 12 provided urgent relief, including 900 million in cash and necessities worth over VND50 million, for people severely affected by floods in the northern and central regions.

Torrential rains brought by a tropical low pressure system on October 10 and 11 triggered floods in the northern province of Yen Bai, which caused 16 people dead and missing as of 13:00 pm on October 11.