The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health has requested a halt to purchases and use of three batches of Human Albumin 20% due to concerns over Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Vietnam has been spending big on imported animal feed and several types of agro-products for fodder production, mounting enormous pressure on domestic produce.

The number of unemployed university graduates grew sharply in the second quarter of 2017, while the country’s unemployment rate declined slightly compared with the previous quarter, according to data of the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs.

The Vietnam Environment Administration is inspecting a huge dumping site which is seriously affecting locals and companies in Hanoi and Ha Nam Province.

Along with Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Anh, Chairman of the Danang People’s Committee Huynh Duc Tho has been held accountable for multiple land management violations so serious that they now await disciplinary actions from the Party.

VOV.VN - Tam Long Viet Fund (Vietnam Heart Fund), Vietnam Television and the Italian Embassy in Vietnam held a press conference in Hanoi on September 19 to promote a charity art program called ‘Qui E Ora Trai Tim Cho Em’ (Qui E Ora Operation Healthy Heart). 

It's been four years since the market's 2,000-plus vendors managed to cobble the money together, but all they've seen is customers walking away.

A Hanoi resident has been banned from traveling by air for nine months after threatening to detonate a mine when checking in for a Nha Trang-bound flight last month, Vietnam’s aviation watchdog announced on Tuesday (September 19).

VOV.VN - Mekong Delta provinces are in flood season with those from the upstream bringing in water, alluvia, and wild products for the region.

The 11th APEC Senior Disaster Management Officials Forum (SDMOF) will convene in Vinh city, in the central province of Nghe An, on September 21.

The White Book on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) 2017 of Vietnam was released by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) in Hanoi on September 19.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee launched a donation campaign in aid of people in the central region, who have borne the brunt of storm Doksuri, in Hanoi on September 19.

The health of children in Vietnam has recorded considerable improvements in recent years.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and the United Nations Volunteers Programme held a consultation in Hanoi on September 19 to discuss policies on youth’s voluntary activities.

A regional workshop to share experience in harmonising culture, environmental and economic development for mountainous and ethnic minority areas was held in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on September 18.

VOV.VN - Ten fishermen feared dead after four days adrift in the East Sea were found safe and sound Tuesday, September 19, in what one official spoke of as a ‘miracle’ rescue, reported Vnexpress.

VOV.VN - Waterfront areas in the central Vietnam province of Ha Tinh resemble an outdoor ship wreck museum, reports Vnexpress. 

VOV.VN - A plastics storage warehouse in the northern city of Haiphong has been destroyed in a large inferno that started at around 7pm on Monday, September 18, say fire officials.

VOV.VN - A steel company has been found to have violated the country’s environmental rules during a recent investigation, the People’s Committee of northern Lao Cai Province said on Tuesday, September 19.

The planned pilot run of the first elevated train in Hanoi next month will be delayed amid lagging construction progress and financial difficulties.

VOV.VN - Former State President Truong Tan Sang and his wife shared a charity lunch with the poor at Nu Cuoi (Smile) Pub on Cong Quynh Street, Ho Chi Minh City on September 18.

Vietnam will develop a nuclear science & technology center with two components in Da Lat and Hanoi, according to the director of the Vietnam Atomic Research Institute, Tran Chi Thanh.

Hanoi authorities on September 18 decided to allocate more than VND7 billion (US$308,000) from the local fund for emergency aid to people in the central region hit by storm Doksuri.

Unless Hanoi's authorities restructure Noi Bai International Airport soon, it will face serious overloading over the next few years, Minister of Transport Truong Quang Nghia warned at a recent meeting.

The 12th International Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), themed “Vision and Action Programme for Safe, Green and Integrated Transport”, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on September 18. 

Tran Thi Chang, president of the Vietnamese women’s club in Malaysia, was worried about the fact that more and more Vietnamese children were growing up in the country, but there were no Vietnamese class for them to learn their mother tongue.

VOV.VN - Ha Thu and Hang Nguyen have recently returned from a tour of Vinh Long Province where they presented gifts to needy on the occasion of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.

VOV.VN - The signing of an agreement Monday, September 18, between the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency marks the beginning of a new partnership in aerospace technology.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) will step up bilateral and multilateral cooperation with international organisations and other countries between now and 2020 in order to assert its prestige and position, said VSS Deputy General Director Dao Viet Anh. 

VOV.VN - Two ships of the Republic of Korea Navy with more than 600 crewmembers moored at Tien Sa Port Monday, September 18, beginning a four-day visit to the city of Danang.