The APEC Network of Anti-Corruption Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies (ACT-NET) held a workshop on intensifying cooperation in revoking corruption assets among law enforcement agencies on August 18 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Nearly 100 delegates from 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) discussed best practices sharing of standards and conformity assessment implementation on smart cities in the APEC region at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on August 18. 

The 2017 APEC 2017 Food Security Week and a High-Level Policy Dialogue on Enhancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Response to Climate Change kicked off in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 18. 

The impact of government policy instruments on promoting new energy vehicles was the main topic of the APEC 2017 Automotive Dialogue (AD)-Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on August 18.

VOV.VN - Coast Guard crews are searching for a Vietnamese fishing boat with nine crewmembers on board that vanished in the Hoang Sa Archipelago, report local officials.

VOV.VN - Three Vietnamese children are among the six killed on Friday, August 18, by an explosion of munitions left over from the bitter battles of the Vietnam War with the US, reports Sai Gon Giai Phong Online.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese student Tran Bich Phuong has been awarded with a fully-funded scholarship from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID).

The Ministry of Education and Training will regulate specific floor marks for teacher training colleges and universities from 2018 as part of measures to improve teacher training quality.

A project on smart interactive museums will be piloted at the Southern Women’s Museum and the Cu Chi Tunnel Historical Complex in Ho Chi Minh City.

Police in Hanoi have arrested a customs officer for stealing more than 150 kilograms of ivory that his unit had seized from smugglers.

A man from the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam has gone to extraordinary lengths to establish a woodland that is now receiving orders from Europe and Japan.

A controversial tollgate in Tien Giang Province, located in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, is planning to lower its fee following fierce opposition from local commuters.

A court in Ho Chi Minh City on August 16 sentenced a Lao man to life imprisonment for illegal drug trafficking.

 Prof. Dr Dang Huy Huynh, Chairman of the Heritage Tree Council and Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE), has become the first Vietnamese to be honoured as an ASEAN Biodiversity Hero.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on August 17 carried 2.5 tonnes of goods raised by the Vu A Dinh scholarship fund to flood-hit victims in the northern provinces of Son La and Yen Bai.

“Dirty” and “stinky” are the two words most used to describe Tho Quang port in the central city of Da Nang over the last decade.

For several months now, the market for textbooks, reference books and study kits has been abuzz with activity as the new school year approaches.

For the last few years, an increasing number of students in Hai Ninh commune in central Quang Binh province’s Quang Ninh district have dropped out of school to help their parents with fishing at sea.

The High-Level People’s Court in Hanoi on August 17 began to hear the appeals of four defendants in a major corruption case at the Vinashin Ocean Shipping Company Ltd (Vinashinlines).

Vietnam has been striving to reduce the number of HIV infections and prevent outbreaks in high-risk communities despite a decline in funding from the international community, health officials said.

The 2017 Bui Xuan Phai – For the Love of Hanoi Awards ceremony was organised at the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) headquarters in Hanoi on August 17, marking a decade of honouring lovers of the capital city.

Officials of Dak Lak, on August 16, received delegations of Vietnamese and Lao children who are taking part in a friendship summer camp in the Central Highlands province.

VOV.VN - Scattered showers and storms are expected to return to the Hanoi metropolitan area tonight, Thursday, August 17, and into tomorrow after heavy rain caused traffic headaches earlier in the day.

VOV.VN - There was no appearance of braking when a tractor trailer sideswiped a tour bus on Wednesday, August 16, on Highway 1A in Binh Dinh Province, killing 5 passengers, police officials said.

Vietnam’s aviation authorities have decided to raise service fees for all carriers that use the country's airports from October this year, a move that is likely to propel airfares in the same direction.

VOV.VN - The Prime Minister’s decision to create an industry-driven workforce development task force couldn’t have come at a more critical time, said Vu Hong Dan from the Vietnam National Productivity Institute.

VOV.VN - Actress Lan Phuong has recently had a volunteer trip to a Mong ethnic minority village in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

VOV.VN - Torrential rains over the last few days have caused serious landslides and floods in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

The capital city of Hanoi has been taking efforts to stamp out the dengue fever outbreak which has plagued the city in recent months, with nearly 15,400 cases reported in 12 districts so far this year.

A Vietnam-Cambodia military youth gala night was held on August 16 in Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Year 2017 and 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the two countries.