The company responsible for a huge mountain of copper slag waste left untouched for years in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa has come up with a solution for local residents’ pollution nightmare.

A six-year-old boy who had been missing for five days after allegedly being kidnapped was found dead not too far from his house in north-central Vietnam on July 8.

Hanoi’s Industry and Trade Department has proposed to build automatic car wash systems at 67 filling stations as a measure to curb air pollution in the city.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade on July 6 worked with petrol wholesalers on the roadmap to replace RON 92 petrol with E5 bio-fuel from 2018.

VOV.VN -  The province of Quang Tri held a wreath-laying ceremony today (July 8) at the Truong Son National Martyr Cemetery Ancient Citadel in honour of all the soldiers who gave their lives in defence of liberty.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Population and Family Planning held a meeting on July 7 in celebration of World Population Day (July 11).

VOV.VN - The daughter of a couple who immigrated from Vietnam in the 1980s, Dao Quynh Trang, has graduated from a Russian high school in the province of Pskov with the highest grades.

VOV.VN - Here are the latest images of the new US$154 million international terminal at the Danang Airport, which is on track to open well in advance of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week set for November 5-11.

Field surveys and excavations are underway at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City to search for a mass grave said to contain the remains of hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers killed in wartime.

Vietnamese mobile service operators are racing to reduce the charges for roaming services after the Ministry of Information and Communications allowed mobile operators to negotiate with foreign partners about international roaming services since June 1.

 More than 200 children with disabilities in the northern mountainous province of Son La have been given free checkups, health consultations and surgeries thanks to a programme, which ran from July 3-7.

Children were provided with essential skills to protect themselves from violence, sexual abuse, labour exploitation and accidents at a children forum held in the central province of Thanh Hoa on July 7.

Member of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party’s Politburo and President of the Lao Front for National Construction Saysomphone Phomvihane had a meeting on July 7 with the Vietnamese community in Laos on the occasion of the occasion of the 40 years of the Vietnam-Laos Treaty of Amity.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam delivered a key address to legislators today (July 7) at which he talked about furthering the Vietnam government’s leadership on the environment, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

Ho Chi Minh City authorities are calling for investment in the form of public private partnerships (PPP) to build golf courses, parks, trade centres or property projects on three closed landfill sites.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Brazil held a ceremony on July 6 to present the third prize of the National External Information Service Awards 2016 to William Gsiant, a presenter of TV Supren in Brasilia.

VOV.VN - A century-old storm water drainage system in the town of Cho Lau in the Bac Binh District of Binh Thuan Province has finally gotten replaced, reports the Vietnam News Agency.

VOV.VN - Thirty Republic of Korean university students will spend 12 days at the village of Kim Lien in the north-central province of Nghe An attending a summer camp focused on improving their knowledge of Vietnamese language and culture.

VOV.VN - Miss Vietnam Do My Linh has donated gifts to Agent Orange victims in Van Dinh Town, Ung Hoa District, Hanoi as part of activities marking the National War Invalids and Martyrs Day.

Vietnam and Laos discussed the role of people’s councils in making decisions and supervising land issues at a seminar held in the northern mountainous province of Son La on July 6. 

The noble sacrifices of Vietnamese wars heroes and martyrs, who shed blood for national freedom and independence, are being honoured at an exhibition that recently opened at Hoa Lo Prison Museum in downtown Hanoi.

A number of decades-old trees along a street in Ho Chi Minh City’s center are slated to be either cut or relocated to make way for a bridge construction, the municipal transport department said on July 5.

More resources should be channeled into grassroots and preventive medicine, which is considered as the root of the health sector, focusing on extremely disadvantaged areas, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

Experts have suggested Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members should soon establish a new cooperation mechanism to develop tourism sustainably. 

Cambodia’s Minister of Information Khieu Kanharrith spoke highly of the effective cooperation between Vietnamese and Cambodian press agencies since 1993 at a reception in Phnom Penh on July 6.

The central province of Quang Nam and its neighbouring Lao province of Sekong have agreed to maintain coordination in building a shared border line of peace and friendship.

Measures to help Vietnam solve challenges in applying foreign technologies in domestic production and build relevant policies were discussed at a workshop in Hanoi on July 6. 

Construction of a household solid waste treatment factory kicked off on July 6 in Luong Hoa commune, Chau Thanh district, the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh.

 An APEC 2017 working group on July 6 inspected preparations on health care for the APEC Forum on Financial Inclusion which is slated for July 10-12 in Hoi An town, the central province of Quang Nam.

Vietnam’s new forest areas rose 4.5% year-on-year to 90,700 hectares in the first six months of the year thanks to favourable weather condition, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.