Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has assigned the Ministry of Public Security and authorised agencies to investigate the building of low quality fishing vessels in the south central province of Binh Dinh and some other localities as reported by the media recently.

 Hanoi authorities said construction progress is being speeded up so that the Hanoi Train Station-Nhon urban railway project (Route No. 3) will be completed in 2021.

The Hai Van Tunnel, connecting Da Nang city and Thua Thien-Hue province in the central region, will be closed for 30 minutes every day starting from July 11, said the Ministry of Transport (MoT).

Developers of high-rise buildings that violate safety regulations will not be eligible for future land allocation or land lease, according to the People’s Committee of Hanoi.

VOV.VN - A multi-million-dollar restoration of the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, a piece of Ho Chi Minh City history, has gotten underway.

VOV.VN - Terminal 1 at the Noi Bai Airport will undergo nine months of maintenance starting July 11, 2017, to upgrade the electrical system, reports the Vnexpress Online Newspaper.

VOV.VN - A wide range of activities are set to take place in the northern province of Son La over the three days July 4-7 to mark the 55th anniversary of Vietnam-Laos diplomatic ties and 40 years of Vietnam-Laos Friendship and Cooperation.

VOV.VN - In August 2016, Oxfam in Vietnam celebrated the launch of the Women’s Economic Empowerment through Agriculture Value Chain Enhancement program funded by the Australian Government.

Thousands of people in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, including military officers and soldiers, youth union members and local residents, donated blood during the Blood Donation Festival on July 4 in response to the national blood donation campaign “Red Journey”.

Eleven more people were exposed to HIV after responding to a traffic accident in Kom Tum province, with 35 people altogether exposed to the virus altogether.

An American physiotherapist has given up her home and career in the US to realize her dream of helping patients in Vietnam.

Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have asked the Dak Nong Aluminum Company to ensure that aluminum powder is not released into the environment.

In the second quarter of this year, Vietnam recorded a labour force of 54.52 million, of which 53.4 million people aged 15 years or more found work, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - Miss Vietnam runner-up 2016 has named the Goodwill Ambassador of Hanh Trinh Do (Red Journey), a nationwide annual blood donation campaign.

Twenty-four doctors and residents have been exposed to HIV after providing emergency assistance to the victims of a fatal collision on June 30 between two coaches in Kon Tum Province, in Vietnam’s Central Highlands,.

Officials of Can Tho city had a working session with a visiting delegation of Japan’s Nagasaki-Vietnam Friendship Association on July 3, discussing stronger cooperation in environmental protection.

The number of children admitted to the Hanoi-based National Paediatrics Hospital for disorders following the use of a traditional medicine called "thuoc cam" has increased.

Authorities are seeking ways to relocate hundreds of thousands of households facing the threat of landslides in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region.

The Ministry of Public Security held a conference in Hanoi on July 3 to review its first-half activities and set major tasks for the remaining months of this year and the next years. 

An international conference featuring emerging horizons in Vietnam-India ties is taking place in New Delhi, attracting nearly 50 delegates from Vietnam, Singapore and India. 

Police of Moc Chau and Van Ho districts, the northern mountainous province of Son La, arrested five people for illegally transporting and trading 40 packs of heroin on July 2.

Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains since June 19 have killed six persons in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang. 

VOV.VN - Vinh University in Central Nghe An Province is helping its young students better understand the world around them through life changing volunteer experiences in Laos this summer that will redefine the way they see the world.

More than 100 woodblocks and official documents under the Nguyen dynasty (1802-1945) demonstrating Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos are being exhibited in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.

VOV.VN - Le Van Khoa, vice chair of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee presided today (July 3) over the inauguration ceremony for two flyovers that will ease the traffic movement in the Tan Son Nhat Airport area.

VOV.VN - Fire destroyed 20 kiosks and stalls in the early morning hours of July 3 at a night market in the southern Vietnam Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, but caused no injuries, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

The southern province of Ben Tre held a ceremony on July 1 to mark the 195th birth anniversary of poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu and receive a certificate recognising his tomb and monument as a special national historical relic site.

The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) aims to offer VND41 trillion (US$1.8 billion) of loans to the southwest region in 2030, up VND13 trillion (US$571 million), or 46 percent, compared to 2016, with average credit growth of 10 percent each year.

The Ministry of Labor plans to enforce a supplementary regulation regarding the management of migrant workers. 

A man has died from multiple injuries after being attacked by his own buffalo that he had brought to a local buffalo fight fest in northern Vietnam.