The Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of central Phu Yen province teamed up with Tam Duc Heart Hospital to provide free screening tests on congenital heart defects for local needy children on April 9.

Hanoi now has around 1,500 old apartment buildings with many deteriorated; but only 14 have been restored.

The World Bank has estimated that by 2030, nearly one-fifth of Vietnamese will enter old age and around 40% of the population aged 70-74 will still have to work, mostly in the unofficial labor market.

If you travel by bus in Ho Chi Minh City this weekend it will be your last chance to hop off at the main station fronting Ben Thanh Market in District 1.

Police in northern Vietnam have chased after a suspicious ambulance and discovered the vehicle as carrying a large frozen tiger carcass.

A foreign visitor who was hurt after stumbling on a street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City after her foot caught a U-shaped iron hook buried onto the sidewalk earlier this week will receive apology and compensate from the company responsible for those ‘traps.’

Hundreds of residents at the Thanh Da View Apartment Complex in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City have been cut off from water supply for nearly a fortnight despite the condo being classified as of the high-grade segment.

VOV.VN - Hanoi hopes to welcome 23 million tourists including 4.3 million foreigners this year. The city has implemented a number of measures to achieve this target.

A get-together was held in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on April 8 to celebrate the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay New Year festival, one of the most important festivals of the year for the Khmer people.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh extended his New Year wishes to the Lao Party, State and people when attending a ceremony to welcome their traditional Bun Pi May festival held by the Lao Embassy in Vietnam on April 7.

Ho Chi Minh City hopes to receive more support from Japan to implement flood prevention projects and construct rainwater drainage systems, Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Dinh La Thang told Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Tourism Keiichi Ishii.

VOV.VN - Former Miss Vietnam Giang My, recently travelled to the remote village of Tan Phong in the province of Quang Nam to deliver money she helped collect to assist local villagers build homes.

VOV.VN - Actress Michelle Yeoh, a renowned actress and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, arrived in Ho Chi Min City on April 8 to champion a campaign to make road safety a priority in Vietnam.

A recent study published by the Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital has revealed that nearly 100 people in Vietnam commit suicide due to depression on a daily basis, shedding light on the devastating role mental illness can play in local communities.

Secretary of the Hanoi municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai gave a number of directions during a conference held in Hanoi on April ​7 to review the five-year implementation of the 11th Politburo’s Resolution on orientations and tasks for the capital city’s 2011-2020 development. 

As many as 250,000 people are expected to join blood donation events in April, while at least 130,000 blood units are hoped to be gathered during the month, said Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu, deputy head of the National Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation on April 7.

VOV.VN -  A meeting was held on April 7 in Hanoi to respond the World Health Day 2017 themed “Depression: Let’s Talk”.

VOV.VN - Tertiary education in Vietnam is facing greater demand for improved soft skills training to meet the needs of the private sector and the fast-changing and more internationally integrated economy.

Nearly one year after a marine environmental incident occurred in central Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue provinces, efforts and actions are being made to bring the calm sea back for the region.

A year after the environmental incident caused by the Hung Nghiep Formosa Steel Corporation, residents along the central coast are trying to return to a normal life.

The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa is holding exhibitions displaying ancient maps and documents about Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes in its Cam Lam and Khanh Son districts and Cam Ranh city from April 7-27.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has promulgated a government overall programme on practicing thrift and preventing wastefulness in 2017.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue congratulated the Khmer ethnic community in southern Vietnam on their traditional Chol Chnam Thmay New Year festival during a get-together in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on April 7.

VOV.VN - A 10-alarm fire destroyed a warehouse filled with air conditioners and other manufacturing supplies located in an industrial area of Hanoi, said fire officials on April 7.

VOV.VN - A contingent of young Vietnamese students will be jetting off later this year to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, to join the world’s largest vocational skills competition, WorldSkills.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has asked the Hanoi People’s Committee to revise its construction plan and build more parks and parking areas to serve people.

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has expressed his hope for cooperation with Microsoft to turn the city into a technology incubator.

Students from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have met at a series of exchanges in Ho Chi Minh City on April 6 to celebrate Laos’s Bun Pi May and Cambodia’s Chol Chnam Thmay New Year Festivals.

The Association in Support of Disabled People and Orphan Children said it has assisted more than 6 million people in the past five years.

Nguyen Van Hoa, a 22-year-old resident of Ky Anh district, has been arrested by Ha Tinh police for abusing his civil rights and infringing upon the State’s interests.