The Party and State always pay attention to caring for wounded and sick soldiers, and families of the martyrs, who laid down their lives for national independence, freedom and peace, President Tran Dai Quang has said. 

The People’s Court of the northern province of Ha Nam on July 25 gave a jail sentence of nine years to Tran Thi Nga on the charge of conducting anti-State propaganda under Clause 1 of Article 88 of the Penal Code.

Authorities in the central province of Khanh Hoa have requested a new runway that is under construction at Cam Ranh international airport should become operational in 2018.

By 3pm on July 25, tropical storm Sonca made landfall in the northern areas of the central provinces of Quang Tri and weakened into a tropical low pressure, according to the National Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecasting.

All the land in the Mieu Mon airfield, the focus of a land dispute in Hanoi a few months ago, is defence land and has been used for defence purposes by military units, the Hanoi inspectorate said on July 24.

The Ministry of Public Security reported on July 25 that its force brought to light 3,832 criminal cases and arrested 7,727 people involved and smashed 198 criminal rings in July.

An exhibition was opened in Hanoi on July 25 to showcase documents, exhibits and photos on activities to show gratitude to war invalids, martyrs and national contributors on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27).

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong visited a nursing centre for revolutionary contributors in Vien Ngoai village, Hanoi’s Ung Hoa district, on July 25, ahead of the 70th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947).

VOV.VN - Good Neighbors, the largest nongovernmental aid organization in the Republic of Korea, ceremoniously appointed Korean singer and actress Hari Won as goodwill ambassador for Vietnam yesterday (July 24).

VOV.VN - The body of Vo Thi Duyen has been found in Malaysia. Details of the exact circumstances surrounding the death of the Vietnamese national have not yet been released.

Drastic and synchronous measures are needed to control dengue fever outbreak in Vietnam, heard a teleconference on July 24.

Professor Gerard’t Hooft, Dutch Nobel Laureate in Physics and his wife have arrived in the south central province of Binh Dinh.

The 46th meeting of ASEAN National Tourism Organisations opened in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on July 24.

The Vietnam Airlines and the Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO) rescheduled their services to and from airports in the central provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Quang Binh on July 25 due to tropical storm Sonca.

Ho Chi Minh City-based Quang Trung Software City has recently launched a bike share scheme, one of various pilot models under its Smart City project.

HCMC residents in many areas now live in fear as landslides may occur at any time, depriving them of their homes and assets.

Work has begun on an effort to expand an emergency tunnel that runs beneath the Hai Van Pass in central Vietnam.

 The central province of Quang Nam plans to build a railway flyover at one of the busiest crossroads on National Highway No 1A, in Nui Thanh district.

Tropical storm Sonca is forecast to make landfall in central provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Tri on July 25 afternoon and poses a risk of floods and landslides, according to the National Centre for Hydrometeorology Forecasting.

Police in the central province of Nghe An on July 24 arrested Le Dinh Luong on suspicion of conducting activities aiming at overthrowing the State.

Several streets in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8 have become severely degraded, posing a threat to commuter safety during the rainy season.

New medical graduates could be required to work for three to five years at healthcare centres in outlying regions to meet a critical lack of doctors and help improve healthcare services there.

As many as 209 children with disabilities in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son are expected to benefit from a six–day free operation programme that runs through July 29. 

Police in Hai Phong on July 24 busted a ring transporting drugs from Vietnam-Laos border to the city and surrounding provinces, seizing 28 cakes of heroin, weighing nearly 9.83 kg, and 8kg of methamphetamine.

More than VND197 billion (US$8.7 million) has been donated to the Gratitude Fund, which is an outcome of a movement beginning in late April to call on all people to express gratitude to revolutionary contributors.

An international seminar on information safety is scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City on November 17 and in Hanoi on December 1 on the occasion of Vietnam Information Safety Day, announced the Vietnam Information Security Association (VNISA). 

Supercomputers will be deployed to unify databases of different agencies managing information about war invalids and martyrs, significantly reducing time taken to locate documents or determine the identity of remains.

The Government Inspectorate (GI) has released findings of egregious wrongdoing in the implementation of a number of BT (Build-Transfer) and BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) infrastructure and environmental projects in Hanoi.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan visited and presented gifts to policies beneficiaries in the northern province of Hai Duong on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs' Day (July 27).

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 24 paid a working session with leaders of Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Limited Company (FHS).