VOV.VN - Vietnam has served 46 million domestic travelers and received 7.2 million foreign visitors over the past 7 months with a focus on the key tourism markets such as Northeast Asia, Western Europe, and Southeast Asia.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese students won 4 gold and 1 silver medal at the 48th International Physics Olympiad this year. Nguyen The Quynh, a 12th grader from Vo Nguyen Giap Gifted High School in Quang Binh province won a gold medal for the second time.

VOV.VN - Quang Ninh provincial authorities have imposed a fishing ban in the core area of Ha Long Bay after investigations of fishing activities in Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay. The province has launched a campaign to protect local marine resources.

Ho Chi Minh City’s transport department has announced a plan to chop down more trees, this time to give way to heavy traffic near Tan Son Nhat Airport.

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.

VOV.VN - The peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower is coming tomorrow morning, August 13 during the hours of 1am to 3am, say astronomers at the Academy of Science and Technology. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to hire foreign consultants to consider the expansion of the Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City without limitation in land use planning.

Free heart disease screenings were given to poor children under 16 years old in northern Thai Binh province on August 12 as part of a charity project “Trai tim cho em” (Operation Healthy Heart).

VOV.VN - A tornado in the central highlands district of Bao Lam in Lam Dong Province damaged an estimated 40 homes and commercial buildings, but caused no injuries on Friday, August 11.

VOV.VN - Thousands of residents of Hanoi have been struck by dengue fever over recent weeks, putting medical services under strain as they struggle to combat the potentially lethal disease.

With download speed of 5.46 megabytes per second, Vietnam's internet speed has been ranked 74th out of 189 countries and territories in a recent global survey of broadband speeds compiled by Cable.co.uk, a U.K. broadband, TV, phone and mobile provider.

Vietnam deployed three coast guard vessels on Wednesday night to rescue a Croatian man who had suffered a heart attack on a cargo ship off the country's central coast.

Vu Gia- Thu Bon, one of central Vietnam’s largest river systems, is being devastated by hydropower and sand exploitation operations

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the health sector to continue improving the quality of human resources and focusing on improving medical ethics, while enhancing the quality of the country’s population.

Construction of Xa Ot bridge at Lao Bao-Densavan international border gate between Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri and Savannakhet province of Laos kicked off on August 11.

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith on August 11 sent sympathies to his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc over heavy human and property losses caused by recent floods triggered by prolonged rains in the north of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV, Vietnam Television (VTV), and the Ministry of Justice on August 11 signed a coordination program in Hanoi aiming to strengthen communications and education of law and activities the justice sector from now until 2021.

VOV.VN - At a press conference on Friday, August 11, police in the central province of Nghe An announced what they called the closure of a major heroin and ecstasy pipeline from Laos to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - City of Danang officials are leaving no stone unturned as they enter the final stretch in the preparations for the upcoming APEC Summit 2017 set to transpire November 6-11, says Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Xuan Anh.

Trịnh Trần Nam Đạt spends his daily life on a bamboo mat in the middle of his home.

The Vietnam Education Publishing House Limited Company has printed more than 100 million copies of textbooks for the 2017-2018 academic year.

The Ministry of Health will chair seven meetings on health-related issues during the third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM3) and related meetings scheduled for August 18-30 in Ho Chi Minh City, said an official from the ministry. 

VOV.VN - City of Hanoi workers were out in full force in the wee morning hours of Friday, August 11, spraying a thin mist of insecticide in wards throughout the capital to kill mosquitoes and larvae as part of their effort to eradicate the dengue virus.

Central Highland provinces are taking drastic measures to restore, protect and develop natural forests.

Nearly 5,000 additional cases of dengue fever have been detected in Hanoi within the last two weeks, including six fatal ones. 

VOV.VN - Leaders of the Son La province have come together after the Muong La district was hit hard by several flashfloods, in order to devise proper solutions to help the locals affected by the floods, stabilize their lives, and make the area flood-proof. 

While the expressway’s speed limit sits at a lofty 120km per hour, vehicles battling weekend traffic typically inch along at 10kph. 

The Vietnam Medical Association and Cancer Patients Assistance Fund “For a Brighter Future” and the Cancer Research Institute put up 50 bookshelves in Hanoi-based K Hospital on August 9.

VOV.VN - The embassies of Vietnam and Laos held a cultural exchange in Tokyo, Japan on August 10th to mark the 55th anniversary of Vietnam-Laos diplomatic ties and the 40th anniversary of signing their bilateral Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

VOV.VN - August 10th is observed as a Day 'For Vietnamese Agent Orange/dioxinVictims'. In the 56 years since the US army sprayed the defoliant on Vietnam battlefields, the consequences have affected the lives, not only of those directly exposed to AO/Dioxin, but of their children and grandchildren.