Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to push ahead with cooperation in the fight against drugs by instructing authorized agencies and border localities to maintain the regular exchange of information and close coordination in investigating and cracking down drug trafficking rings.

Vietnam was the chair of the 41st Asia-Pacific Ladies Friendship Society (ALFS) Charity Bazaar, held in Tokyo, Japan, on April 19, which attracted the participation of 19 regional countries.

Sappers in the central province of Quang Tri founded a 240-kg bomb on April 19, when working on a project to expand the Lao Bao international border gate in Huong Hoa district.

 Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health has instructed general hospitals to improve emergency aid treatment in an aim to reduce overcrowding at Cho Ray Hospital.

 Ensuring water security is becoming an urgent matter of Vietnam in the context that climate change is causing bad impact on all aspects of the life from socio-economic affairs to the environment and ecosystem, heard a conference in Hanoi on April 19.

VOV.VN - A speeding out of control passenger bus careered into an oncoming car about 8.30am today (April 19) on the Sai Ho Slope in the province of Lang Son.

Sam Son town was promoted to a city in the north central coastal province of Thanh Hoa at the ongoing ninth session of the 14th National Assembly Standing Committee in Hanoi on April 19.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Education and Training has unveiled that a group of eight of the brightest high school physics students in the country have been selected to take on the region’s best at the upcoming Asian Physics Olympiad in Russia.

Education authorities in Vietnam's central province of Thua Thien-Hue have ordered local nursery schools and kindergartens to install surveillance cameras in classrooms and toilets to protect kids following recent child abuse scandals that have caused public uproar across the country.

The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) has mobilised more than VND5.5 trillion (US$243.3 million), goods and volunteers to support some 30 million children across the country.

Traffic accidents in Hanoi killed 129 people and injured 274 others in recent months, a decline compared to the same period last year, announced the Hanoi Department of Transport.

Sales of air conditioners and fruits in HCM City soared in recent days as a heat wave hit the area.

A Hanoi woman who claimed to have bought "thousands of air tickets" after she was kicked out of an airplane over improper behavior earlier this month seems to be unable to afford an administrative fine of less than US$200.

Viettel launched its 4G service in Hanoi on April 18 in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, who asked the military-run telecommunication group to seek measures to give people free access to information of Party and State agencies as well as major media agencies.

Ho Chi Minh City and provinces of the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam are sinking at an alarming rate, posing grave danger to the local economy and livelihoods, experts have warned.

Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan made clear State management in cyber information safety and social media during a question-and-answer session as part of the National Assembly Standing Committee’s ninth session in Hanoi on April 18. 

Vietnam and China highlighted increasing the information exchange at all levels to make the fight against human traffickers more efficient this year at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on April 18.

A labour inspection campaign targeting the electronic sector was launched in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on April 18.

The Hanoi People’s Committee on April 18 decided to imprison 11 defendants who appropriated more than 863 billion VND (37.94 million USD) by creating of a fake afforestation project in the central province of Nghe An.

The authorised agencies of Hanoi are taking measures to restore security and order in Dong Tam commune, My Duc district, where chaos have broken out since late 2016 due to the reclamation of a defence land plot.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a seminar in Hanoi on April 18 to discuss measures to promotes the role played by communications agencies in popularising the ASEAN Community.

The Vietnam National Committee on Youth and the National Youth Council (NYC) of Singapore signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation for 2017-2020 in Hanoi on April 18.

VOV.VN - Voice of Vietnam Vice President Vu Hai today (Apr. 18) met with Vietnam Ambassador to Egypt and Palestine Do Hoang Long at the VOV head office campus in the capital city of Hanoi.

The Vietnam Association of Manpower Supply (VAMAS) on April 17 announced the results of the annual evaluation of migrant worker recruitment agencies, with 43% of agencies ranked receiving a five Star Rating.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese officials said on April 17 that a new breakout of avian influenza, H5N1, has emerged on a poultry farm in the southern Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long.

The United Nations (UN) vows to make long-term cooperation with the Vietnamese Government to cope with climate change, UN Resident Coordinator to Vietnam Kamal Malhotra has said.

An appeal court in Ho Chi Minh City on April 17 upheld the death sentence of a Vietnamese-born Australian national for trafficking heroin.

A mobile explosive ordnance disposal team of Peace Trees Vietnam has cleared 22 cluster bombs left from the war in Huong Hoa district, central Quang Tri province.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is giving a push to a project to improve the water environment in the former imperial city of Hue, which has struggled to hit targets.

Helping people with disabilities integrate into the community has always been a priority in Vietnam’s policies towards this disadvantaged group, and the nation will continue to focus on this task in the 2016-2020 period.