VOV.VN - The Vietnam Association for the Protection of Children's Rights today (August 2) announced a new US$45,000 initiative titled ‘Light Up Dreams’ to expand young people’s access to economic opportunity. 

VOV.VN - A restaurant in Hanoi imported a pair of giant hemibagrus (Ca Lang) on August 1 to serve customers.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a plan to promote dissemination work on global integration events in 2017-2020. 

Vietnam aims to curb the annual ratio of infections and fatalities due to dengue below 0.09 percent by 2020 and early detect oral, breast, cervical and colorectal cancer in nearly 20 percent of people.

VOV.VN - Beauty star Le Hang visited Mai Hoa Centre in Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City, and cooked for children with HIV living there.

The Association for Sponsorship of Poor Patients of Ninh Thuan Province has supported 401 children with congenital heart diseases over the past nine years.

Six months after being introduced, the online registration of foreigners’ accommodations in Vietnam has yielded effective results, according to police authorities and hotels.

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) is promoting cyber security awareness, as the number of internet users in Thailand has increased. 

The Royal Thai Navy is proceeding with the feasibility study for the expansion of U-Tapao airport on 6,500 rail land to support the Eastern Economic Corridor's (EEC) development, potentially raising the country's industrial and economic capabilities. 

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Information and Communications Department is coordinating with relevant agencies to install around 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in worker dormitories and rental housing areas in the City.

Gen Navin Damrigan, the deputy secretary-general to the prime minister for political affairs, visited NBT World studio to share useful information about Thailand’s electric car dream, considering the perspective of both producers and users.

Thailand and Portugal have joined hands to initiate digital cooperation with special focus on cyber security, said Digital for Economy and Society Minister Pichet Durongkaveroj. 

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue requested the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to carefully review poor districts in accordance with Resolution 30a.

 The Police Department for Investigation of Economic and Corruption-related Crimes on August 1 launched criminal proceedings against and took into custody Tram Be and Phan Huy Khang, former executives of the Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank).

The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has asked for the Prime Minister’s permission to build a wastewater treatment plant with a total cost of VND522 billion (US$23 million).

Vietnam has a solid foundation for information technology but must constantly strive to be globally competitive, Hajime Hotta, co-founder of Innovatube and president of Cinnamon AI Labs, said at the Hanoi technology event at the weekend.

The minimum wage is too low for workers to survive on while social housing is inadequate and too expensive for them, trade unions told Ho Chi Minh City’s leaders at a recent meeting.

China will import books of Vietnam’s Chibooks publishing house, said Nguyen Le Chi, Director of the Le Chi Culture and Communication Company on July 31.

A visa division was established at the Youyi Guan border gate, the largest one along the China-Vietnam borderline, on July 30 in order to facilitate foreigners’ visa application at the border crossing, the Guangxi newspaper reported.

Telemor, Viettel’s subsidiary in Timor Leste, has become the first mobile service provider to operate a 4G network in the country.

Policies to ensure sustainable livelihoods for disadvantaged labourers must be resilient and not depend on outside support, heard a conference held by the Institute for Workers and Trade Unions in Ho Chi Minh City on July 31.

The Electricity of Vietnam’s Southern Power Corporation (EVN SPC) has conducting a number of projects to provide power services to island communes in the southern region. 

The Border Guard High Command of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung tau on August 1 handed over a Malaysian fisherman, who was in distressed in Vietnam’s waters, to the Malaysian Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - A 29-year old man was pinned against the roadway, killing him, after the brakes on a car failed, reported the Zing online newspaper.

VOV.VN - Firefighters on Tuesday, August 1, knocked down a massive fire at a commercial plastic facility in the district of Binh Chanh in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the Zing online newspaper.

VOV.VN - Approximately 3,000 young runners are expected to turn out for this year’s annual charity colour obstacle run on August 6 at the Hang Day Stadium in Hanoi, which promises to be bigger, better, louder and more colourful than ever.

VOV.VN - Border guards in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum have arrested a Lao man on July 31 for trafficking in over 10,000 tablets of synthetic drugs.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the establishment of the Vietnam Press Museum run by the Vietnam Journalists’ Association.

More than 5,000 people are expected to join a charity walk at Dam Sen park in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of August 5.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are in a battle against a dengue fever epidemic that has already affected tens of thousands of people across the country.