The HCM City administration has instructed the Department of Transport to install LED lights in public places and schools on a trial basis to reduce power consumption.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued an official dispatch requesting relevant ministries, sectors and localities to proactively respond to heavy rains and subsequent floods the northern mountainous region.

Four Vietnamese sailors on board a Taiwanese fishing vessel that sank near South Africa several days ago have been saved, the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre reported on July 11.

The implementation of regulations related to food advertisement has improved, but managing advertising on social networks like Facebook and YouTube has faced a number of difficulties.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and long-term partner, the US Space & Rocket Center (USSRC), welcomed more than 200 middle school teachers from 33 countries and 45 US states and territories to Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA).

Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai have identified three troops of endangered primates following sightings reported by local farmers, according to Vietnam News Agency.

The saola, one of the world's rarest large mammals, was first discovered in Vietnam in 1992, and since then scientists and biologists have been trying their best to track and protect them.

The news that reputed public schools in the capital city of Hanoi will increase their tuition fees further in the next academic year has made many parents worried.

Chief of the Office of the National Steering Committee 389 Dam Thanh The named authorities’ asynchronous coordination and loopholes in mechanisms and policies as shortcomings in the fight against smuggling and counterfeits during a July 11 conference in Hanoi to review the effort. 

Bang Lang stork garden, an attraction in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho with great potential, should be more efficiently managed to help increase the number of tourists to the site, according to authorities.

N.C.T, a 32-year-old man, and his partner, a 38-year-old man, are waiting at the District 11 Preventive Medicine Centre to receive free antiretroviral drugs.

A 38.8m-high flagpole was inaugurated in Con Co island district, the central province of Quang Tri, on July 11 after 18 months of construction. 

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has funded a human resource training programme in Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to help the southern largest economic hub improve the quality of industrial production. 

Talented students, teachers and observers are taking part in the sixth ASEAN Plus Three Junior Science Odyssey (APT JSO-6) which is underway in Vietnam for the first time with the theme “Renewable Energy For Life”.

President Tran Dai Quang hosted a reception in Hanoi on July 11 for a delegation of war invalids, martyrs’ relatives and outstanding officers of the People’s Police Force on the occasion of the 70th War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27).

Torrential rains and landslides in recent days in northern mountainous provinces of Ha Giang, Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Dien Bien, Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen and Hoa Binh have claimed 12 lives and left one missing.

A treetrunk coffin dating back to the Le Dynasty (15th century) was discovered by workers at an irrigation site in Thinh Loc commune, Loc Ha district, the central province of Ha Tinh, director of the provincial museum Nguyen Tri Son said on July 10.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministers, leaders of relevant agencies and chairpersons of provincial and municipal people’s committees to speed up replies to comments and petitions they receive from the public.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health organized an awareness rally in Hanoi today (July 11) to mark the 40th annual observation of World Population Day, reported the Vietnam News Agency. 

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has long had a strong French-Vietnamese community and many of the most ardent turned out today (July 11) to mark the 228th anniversary of Bastille Day at a flag raising ceremony, reports the Vietnam News Agency.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh requested that unexpected inspections should increase whilst administrative inspections should target areas with high risk of corruption in the rest of the year.

Desperate to find jobs, an increasing number of residents from the northern mountain province of Cao Bang are illegally crossing the border to China, often to their own detriment, with worrying implications for small communities in the remote area.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hoped Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) of the Netherlands will step up cooperation with its peers from Vietnam in agriculture, environment and water management in his visit to the educational institution on July 10.

After working with Vietnamese authorities, YouTube and Facebook have removed 3,000 clips and over 600 accounts deemed inappropriate or slanderous toward Vietnamese individuals and organisations.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Youth Union launched its 16th Ky Nghi Hong (Pink Holiday) Campaign with an estimated 3,000 participants on July 9  at Youth Culture House in District 1.

Vard shipyard in Tulcea region of Romania plans to recruit 300 Vietnamese welders and ironworkers to strengthen its personnel amidst abundant orders.

 It is necessary to switch the population policy’s focus from family planning to population and development, which is considered a policy revolution to thoroughly deal with population issues and improve the population’s quality, said an official.

Investors in Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contracts are delaying installation of electronic toll collection (ETC) equipment at their toll gates on highways, officials said. 

VOV.VN - Dean of the Business College at FPT University, Vo Minh Hieu, recently received a teaching excellence award from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs at its annual conference in Anaheim, California. 

Farmers are expanding the areas under high-value perennial trees suitable with the conditions in each region and adaptive to climate change.