The Vietnam Software Association (VINASA) has launched a programme to choose Vietnam’s top 50 IT companies 2017, aiming to honour the leading IT firms and connect promising partners inside and outside the country.

VOV.VN - Humane Society International/Vietnam is calling on the South African government to honor its commitment to protect rhinos by refusing permits for an online auction of rhinoceros horns.

A Vietnamese passenger was arrested at Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport on August 8 for allegedly transporting cocaine from Brazil to HCM City. 

 Nearly 470,000 people were provided with free health check-ups and medicine worth about VND120 billion (US$5.3 million) in the first six months of 2017.

VOV.VN - On August 11, the Hanoi Railway Transport Joint Stock Company (JSC) will inaugurate an international container train connecting Guangxi-Pingxiang in China to Dong Dang-Yen Vien in Vietnam, and vice versa, on a 35-hour journey.

Vietnam’s northernmost province of Ha Giang and Baise city of China’s Guangxi province will continue to effectively implement the agreement on cross-border labour management, contributing to promoting bilateral relations.

HCM City looks forward to closer ties between Vietnam, including the city, and ASEAN nations and its partners for the prosperity of the region and the world, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong on August 8.

With high-end smartphones like Bphone 2 or affordable smartphones like Mobiistar, will Vietnamese smartphones survive amidst the vicious competition?

Some 10,000 workers in Ho Chi Minh City have been able to access the Internet free-of-charge after local authorities began installing free Wi-Fi for local laborers.

Remember our story from last week about how a high school graduate needs a perfect score to enroll in military or police schools in Vietnam? Now it turns out to be much easier if you want to become an educator.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIT) and the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) on August 8 launched a postage stamp themed “National Flower” to mark the 50th founding anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

The Forest Ranger Sub-department of southern Dong Nai province has completed a project to protect the black-shanked douc langurs found recently on Chua Chan mountain, in Xuan Loc district.

 The rates of delayed and cancelled flights of domestic airlines in the first six months of 2017 were 12.2 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively, recording a year-on-year fall of 3.6 points and 0.1 points.

The Vietnam Peacekeeping Centre (VPC) organised on August 8 a subject-matter expert exchange to make final planning on level-2 field hospital equipment practical training.

 The community-based education centre of Ha Giang city, the northernmost province of Ha Giang, made debut on August 8, becoming the first of its kind in Vietnam.

The museum of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on August 8 jointly held a photo exhibition to celebrate the 50th founding anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Vietnam is a leading information technology (IT) services destination in Asia, heard a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on August 8 on the upcoming IT service export conference 2017.

The central city of Da Nang plans to organise a series of activities throughout the year to celebrate the 50th founding anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (August 8, 1967-2017).

The Party Central Committee’s Office on August 8 raised VND421 million (US$18,519) to support locals in northern mountainous localities that have been hit by torrential rains and floods.

The ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre) has supported flood-hit localities in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam with home supplies worth US$230,000.

VOV.VN - With one more death, the dengue toll in Hanoi since the beginning of the year went up to 6, a senior health official of the Central Tropical Diseases Hospital said on Tuesday, August 8. 

The People’s Court of My Duc district, Hanoi, on August 8 opened the first instance trial on law violations regarding land management in the district’s Dong Tam commune.

VOV.VN - Dutch Lady teamed up with the Red Cross on Saturday, August 5, to sponsor a charity walk at the Dam Sen Park in Ho Chi Minh City to raise funds to help Agent Orange victims and people with disabilities.

Hospitals across Hanoi are at full capacity treating dengue fever patients.

Software and legal documents on cybercrime prevention will soon be launched in Vietnam.

An art photography project, I Femme, has been launched to help poor girls access education and to fund schools for poor children in Vietnam, India and Nepal.

A Christian bible school will be set up under the management of the Vietnam Seventh-day Adventist Church after the denomination received a permit from the Prime Minister at a ceremony held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 7.

VOV.VN - The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced on August 7, on behalf of the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, that Canada will support a new scholarship program for ASEAN.

VOV.VN - The 11th Buddhist Youth Summer Camp themed "Sentiment toward the southwestern region" took place at Phuong Nam Zen Monastery in Can Tho city on August 4 involving 1,200 Buddhist youths from 13 provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta.

Trade unions of the Presidential Office and the Government Office have raised funds in support of north-western provinces hit by the recent floods and landslides.