The administration of Danang City in central Vietnam has proposed a number of measures to conserve wildlife on the Son Tra peninsula, including a cutback in the number of new hotels allowed there.

Phony service providers are invalidating and closing Facebook accounts for VND2-3 million payments. The practice is being used against business rivals or for personal revenge.

VietMedical organised a training course on safe practices in the operating room for nearly 100 nurses working at major hospitals in Hanoi.

The Prime Minister has just approved the implementation plan of the agreement on visa exemption for regular passport holders between Vietnam and Chile.

The Hue Relics Preservation Centre and the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper held a ceremony in the ancient city of Hue on August 29 to receive holy earth from Truong Sa archipelago to mix into “Xa Tac” platform.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) held a meeting on August 29 to review a pilot project selecting 600 excellent young intellectuals to work as vice chairs of the communal People’s Committees in 64 poor districts nationwide.

VOV.VN - A farm in the southern Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu was ordered to cull its flock after officials on Tuesday, August 29, identified an outbreak of the avian A/H5N1 virus.

Plans and measures to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change in the northern part of Vietnam were the focus of a conference held in Hanoi on August 29.

VOV.VN - An international conference where law enforcement, pharmaceutical companies and industry experts join together to tackle the severe problem of illegal drug manufacturing began in Hanoi today (August 29).

A carbon market will be one of the means for Vietnam to achieve the committed greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets, according to Nguyen Van Tue – Director of the Department of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change.

The Homeland Security Expo 2017, the first of its kind in Vietnam, was launched at the International Centre for Exhibition in Hanoi on August 29 to introduce latest and modern technologies and products for defence and public security.

VOV.VN - Police officials reported 10 passengers were taken to hospitals with injuries after a crash on the Phap Van-Cau Gie Expressway in the district of Thuong Tin in Hanoi involving two charter buses.

Tay Bac (Northwest) University and the Aus4Skills, an Australian programme supporting Vietnam’s human resources development, signed a cooperation agreement on August 29, laying a foundation for a series of joint activities until 2020.

Some 100 new undergraduate students with difficult backgrounds in central Thua Thien-Hue province were presented scholarships at an event titled “Tiep suc den truong” (Give strength to students) on August 28.

Smuggling has long been a pressing issue in southern provinces that share hundreds of kilometres of border with Cambodia and Thailand.

The Da Nang People’s Committee on August 28 decided to open three new passenger transportation routes on the Han River, all beginning and ending at the Han River Port.

The use of pesticides and chemical fertiliser in farming and the discharge of solid waste from craft villages and households are the main causes of rural environmental pollution, which has become more severe recently in a country with nearly 67% of the population living in rural areas.

The Prime Minister has approved the local healthcare investment and development programme for 2016-2020.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has requested all public educational establishments to refrain from collecting fees other than tuition fees in the 2017-18 school year.

Vietnamese Buddhist followers in Thailand held the Vu Lan (Ullambana) festival to pray for prosperity and to commemorate fallen heroes at Canh Phuoc (Wat Samananamborihan) pagoda in Bangkok on August 27.

A painting and sculpture exhibition on social issues such as child sexual abuse and environmental protection has opened in the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) will launch a campaign to make the world cleaner from September 23-30 with the theme waste management for sustainable rural environment, the ministry announced on August 28.

Ho Chi Minh City will not grant licences to high-rise construction projects on roads and in areas where planned infrastructure projects have not been completed in an effort to relieve congestions.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed the Vietnamese government's readiness to create the best conditions for scientific technological development at a ceremony on August 28 in Hanoi to launch the Vietnam Innovation Golden Book 2017.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien told the global food safety forum in Ho Chi Minh City on August 28 that Vietnam attaches importance to fine-tuning regulations on goods quality as the issue directly impacts human health and consumers’ interests. 

The People’s Court of Hanoi on August 28 opened the first instance hearing for former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ocean Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OceanBank) Ha Van Tham and other 50 defendants for serious violations of the State’s monetary policies.

Destructive human activities have put coral reefs, sea grass beds and many other marine species off Ly Son Island at risk in recent years, with local authorities urged to make more efforts to preserve the unique ecosystem.

The made-in-Vietnam drug pegfilgrastim is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2018, helping reduce cancer treatment costs by up to 60 percent compared with imported drugs, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

More than 1,200 health care managers will need new jobs when provincial centres for preventive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and others are merged into one general Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in each province, as required by the Ministry of Health by 2021.

 Rail tracks located in the inner city have caused problems for Hanoi’s traffic, however, this will be addressed in the future when city planning is completed.