The Supreme People’s Procuracy said on August 15 that it had issued an indictment against 49 accused of being involved in a gambling ring via the cmd368.com website.

VOV.VN - Six people are hospitalized in critical condition after their motorbikes were rear-ended by a Toyota Prado SUV in the city of Quy Nhon in south central coastal Binh Dinh Province, reports the Zing online newspaper.

VOV.VN - 10 Vietnamese students have qualified to compete at the grand finale of the Samsung Collegiate Programming Cup 2017 set for August 17 at the Samsung Electronics Seoul R&D campus.

VOV.VN - Nearly 100 firefighters battled a 9-alarm blaze at a lumber mill today (August 15) in Vinh City in central Nghe An Province, reported the Zing online newspaper.

The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has devised numerous measures to protect the forest belt along its 72km-long coastal line, with the co-management model proven to be one of the most successful. 

VOV.VN - Developing clean energy like solar and wind energy is widely seen as a way to ensure sustainable development while protecting the environment.

The construction of the international terminal at Cam Ranh International Airport in the central province of Khanh Hoa is accelerated in order to start test operations in April 2018.

Ho Chi Minh City is under immense pressure to deal with wastewater produced by people living in the metropolis as well as in neighboring Binh Duong Province.

The Authority of Publication, Printing, and Distribution of the Ministry of Information and Communications will license the reprint of Vietnamese dictionaries of late Professor Nguyen Lan.

The Hanoi transport department has published a list of streets and thoroughfares which taxis will be prohibited from entering during rush hours starting this month.

 A red-shanked douc langur (pygathrix nemaeus) was handed over to the Cuc Phuong national park in the northern province of Ninh Binh by forest rangers in Phu Loc district, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 14.

Analog television signals will be switched off in 15 provinces from August 15 as part of the terrestrial television digitalisation roadmap of the Ministry of Information and Communication.

VOV.VN - Local officials announced Monday, August 14, that every ward in the national capital would be fogged as part of a concerted effort to rid the city of mosquitoes and the deadly dengue virus.

The policy of land and forest allocation for residential communities and ethnic households living in mountainous areas has proved effective over the past more than two decades, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

The Australian Embassy will begin on August 15 accepting applications for its Direct Aid Programme (DAP) grant round 2017-18 for projects in northern Vietnam, which covers provinces north of, and including, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

 Seventy eight overseas Vietnamese teachers from 12 countries and territories are participating in a training course on teaching the Vietnamese language in Hanoi from August 13-27. 

The current technology era is creating both opportunities and challenges for businesses in the process of enhancing and managing resources, delegates told a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City last week.

VOV.VN - A first ever homeland safety, security expo running August 29-30 is set to transpire at the International Exhibition Centre at 91 Tran Hung Dao in Hanoi, reports the Vietnam News Agency.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang will allocate more than VND32 billion (US$1.4 million) to reinforce the Go Cong sea dike to protect coastal agricultural land and residential areas in 2017.

The Department of Preventive Medicine has instructed health officials in provinces and cities nationwide to cooperate with education departments to strengthen cleanliness at schools to prevent outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth disease and dengue fever.

The third open mathematics festival was launched on August 13 at the Hanoi University of Technology by the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.

Vietnamese students finished third with two silver and seven bronze medals in the final of the World Mathematics Olympiad (WMO) held in Tianjin, China from August 11-12. 

VOV.VN - Floods triggered by torrential rains in Hoang Lien National Park on the afternoon of August 12 swept away three local people, said Vu Hung Dung, chair of Sapa District People’s Committee in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

Heavy rain is forecast to drench Vietnam's northern mountains over the next four days due to a low pressure system and a tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Tonkin, the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said on August 13.

Many Vietnamese undergraduates who are short on money have resorted to regularly donating their platelets for a few extra pennies to put them through college.

Continuous rainfall has brought about myriad difficulties for road constructions across Ho Chi Minh City.

A warehouse in Saigon's backpacker area burnt to the ground in the early hours of August 13 morning. No casualties were reported but the warehouse was consumed by the fire.

The central province of Quang Nam plans to restore a 80ha forest as habitat for a herd of gray-shanked douc langurs living in Dong Co village, Tam My Tay commune.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Laos and other agencies of Vietnam in the country have raised a fund worth US$2,300 in support of flood victims in the homeland. 

The Vietnam Narcotics Investigations Department (C47) under the Ministry of Public Policy said it had coordinated with relevant forces to uncover an inter-provincial drug transporting ring, seizing 150 packs of heroin.