A group of households providing homestay services in Ta Van commune, Sa Pa district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, have received the “Homestay ASEAN” award.

Two people died when a boat carrying some 80 attendants of the Nghing Ong Festival capsized in Bac Lieu province on April 6 morning.

Police in the northern province of Hoa Binh have seized 118 pangolins smuggled in a car during a long chase that ended with the police shooting two of the car’s tires.

New diesel vehicles are required to follow Euro 4 emission standards before December 31 this year, according to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).

VOV.VN - Dozens of people went missing today (Apr. 6) as a boat participating in the Nghinh Ong (Whale Worshipping) Festival off the coast of Bac Lieu Province capsized, search and rescue forces have reported. 

Quang Nam residents have long lived under the threat of post-war bombs and landmines, with UXOs claiming many lives and injuring local residents.

VOV.VN -RMIT University Vietnam has announced another set of enhancements to its need-based financial aid policies for low-income students as well as scholarships based on academic achievement.

VOV.VN - The “Best places to work 2016” survey conducted by Anphabe and global market research company Nielsen continued to honor Abbott among top 10 best working places in Vietnam across industries.

VOV.VN - Launched in 2007, the “GoodBooks” project has introduced books to the public. Its goal is to promote a reading habit within the community and foster a collaborative learning environment that will enable Vietnamese to share and gain knowledge. 

VOV.VN - Millions of Vietnamese from all parts of the country converged in the northern province of Phu Tho today (Apr. 6) for the 2017 Hung Kings Festival honouring the eighteen original kings of Vietnam. 

Thirty-nine Vietnamese fishermen arrested by Indonesian authorities for illegal fishing in the country’s waters were released and repatriated on April 5.

A proposal to build a statue of a turtle beside Ho Guom (the Sword Lake), located in the heart of the capital city, was submitted to the Hanoi People’s Committee at the end of March.

The World Vision International (WVI) will provide an additional US$2.26 million for existing programmes and projects in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai in 2017.

VOV.VN - ScholarJet has been named the winner of – VietChallenge 2017 –  an entrepreneurial competition sponsored by the Vietnamese Student Association at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, the US.

Buddhist dignitaries and followers in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho are determined to promote their unity to work for the thriving of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha and the stronger national unity bloc.

Southern provinces and cities have drawn up a plan for prevention of avian influenza A(H7N9) as requested by the Prime Minister, following several outbreaks in China.

Vietnam ranked first among 18 developing countries in Asia and Africa on the Health Governance Capacity Index, according to a study conducted by the Brookings Institute of the US.

Thousands of children under the age of five living in Central region drought-hit areas are recovering from malnutrition due to an emergency nutrition intervention programme project.

VOV.VN - Malaysia has detained 28 crewmembers aboard two Vietnam vessels on charges of fishing illegally in in waters off Miri, Sarawak.

Customs officers detected two consignments containing pangolin scales at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on April 4.

Hanoi’s 197 Steering Committee (tasked with the implementation of traffic order and safety) has asked the municipal People’s Committee to manage public parking zones on some qualified streets.

Public concern is once again inspiring changes to education programmes in schools, with calls for more sex education to be included in the curriculum so that children can better protect themselves from sexual abuse.

A finance career workshop was recently held in Paris by VnFinance, a group of Vietnamese experts, researchers and students majoring in finance in France, to promote careers for Vietnamese students in the country.

A project to promote forest law enforcement, governance and trade (FLEGT) in Southeast Asia through the involvement of civil social organisations (CSOs), has been effective, heard a seminar in Hanoi on April 4. 

The pilot of Swiss-based Vistajet Airline has complained that a laser beam was flashed into the cockpit while his plane was landing at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi.  

VOV.VN - The Thai navy has arrested five Vietnamese trawlers with 16 fishermen on board for illegal fishing in the Gulf of Thailand off the eastern province of Trat.

A party held recently  by a group called Vietnam is Awesome has raised around VND14 million (US$600) and encouraged dozens of volunteers to clean up Ho Chi Minh City on Earth Day (April 22).

Heroin was seized from the three Lao nationals attempting to enter Vietnam.

Holders of bachelor, Master’s or doctorate degrees struggling with unemployment grew to more than 218,000 in the fourth quarter of last year, making up nearly half the number of skilled workers without a job.

Hanoi police on April 4 officially launched an investigation into a robbery gang which was allegedly responsible for 13 theft cases in Vietnam and detained five Colombian nationals involved.