The central province of Ha Tinh, which has close ties with Lao localities, has cooperated effectively with its Lao neighbours, especially in education and training.

More than 1.2 tonnes of young fish were released onto the Lo River in the northern province of Tuyen Quang on September 4 on the occasion of the Buddhist festival of Vu Lan.

Among the ten ASEAN nations, Vietnam is the best known among Russians, according to a survey conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center.

More Australian students will head to Vietnam in 2018 to study and undertake work placements under the New Colombo Plan mobility programme, announced the Australian Embassy in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Three homes have been destroyed and several more damaged after a fire tore through the city of Long Xuyen in southwestern An Giang Province on Monday, September 4, local officials have reported.

President Tran Dai Quang affirmed that education is the foundation of national development and the decisive factor to the nation’s future at the ceremony to launch the 2017-2018 academic year at Trung Vuong Junior High School in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Living between 20 and 40km from school, around 150 teachers and pupils from Muong Nhe District, northern Dien Bien Province had to walk and cross a river on rafts to attend the opening ceremony of the school year 2017-2018 on the morning of September 5.

Two people died and seven others were injured during a landslide in the northern province of Yen Bai’s Tram Tau district on late September 3.

Vietnamese and Lao law enforcement authorities have arrested five suspected drug traffickers in Laos’ Khammouane province in a joint operation.

 A total of 101,700 labourers were registered at newly-established businesses in August, up 8.8 percent year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office.

VOV.VN - Prolonged torrential rains have risen the water level on Nam Co Stream in the northern province of Dien Bien. Local people still risk their lives to catch fish and wood in the flood waters.

VOV.VN - More than 22 million students and pupils across the country started the academic year 2017-2018 with an official opening ceremony on the morning of September 5.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s proposal to increase the feed-in tariff (FiT) of wind power is expected to take projects currently on paper into implementation.

VOV.VN - There were horrific scenes in the district of Tan Binh in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, September 2, as rescuers picked through the rubble of two collapsed tenement buildings—fortunately no one was seriously injured.

The boat is expected to serve the river bus route from downtown Ho Chi Minh City to outlying Can Gio District

The North-South railway has resumed operation, 12 hours following a train accident that derailed three carriages and injured at least three people September 3 in Quang Binh Province.

Scientists believe that Vietnam should master remote-sensing satellite technology as it will have to buy geostationary telecommunication satellites for dozens of years more.

Heavy rains lashed the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai late Sunday, September 3, triggering landslides that killed an 8-month-old child and her mother and injured 7 other people.

About six to eight storms and low pressures are forecast to operate in the East Sea in the rest of the year, with two or three of them directly affecting Vietnam, especially the central region, according to the National Centre for Hydrometeorogical Forecasting.

VOV.VN - The National Committee for Traffic Safety said Monday, September 4 that there have been 36 traffic deaths across the country this National Holiday weekend.

Despite being short of doctors and material facilities, doctors in MuongLat General Hospital in the province of Thanh Hoa have always endeavored to provide treatment for locals but also for thousands of Lao patients.

Hundreds of Vietnamese guest workers across the Republic of Korea (RoK) gathered at a foreign worker festival in Ansan city, Gyeonggi province, about 40km from Seoul, on September 3.

The ninth Vietnam-India People’s Friendship Festival kicked off in Chandigarh city, Punjab state of India, on September 3.

The Vietnam-Laos Youth Friendship Meeting 2017 will be held from September 5-9 in Vietnam as part of a cooperation agreement between the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union.

The Coast Guard ship Badaro of the Republic of Korea (RoK) docked at Tien Sa port on September 4 for a four-day trip to the central city of Da Nang.

VOV.VN - Traffic chaos has hit the popular holiday destination of the island of Cat Hai, with a queue of National Holiday revellers at the Tan Vu-Lach Huyen Bridge waiting for hour on end to cross.

VOV.VN -Crews are searching for the cause of a massive fire at a recycling facility of old cloths on Highway 1A in the district of Binh Tan in Ho Chi Minh City. 

Vietnam’s health insurance fund is forecast to struggle with an enormous deficit of more than VND10 trillion (US$434.8 million) this year, according to a newly released information from the Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI).

Whenever a new year approaches, low-income workers start to fret about finding schools, tuition fees, and arranging to drop off and collect their children at school.

Sixteen traffic accidents killed 14 people and injured 20 others across Vietnam on September 2 as the country observed its National Day.