More than 300 war veterans who once fought to protect Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago attended a get-together in Dong Hoa district, in the central coastal province of Phu Yen, on March 14.

Beekeeping has gone from household business to commercial production with large numbers of beehives in the Central Highlands, providing a greater source of income for local ethnic minority communities.

Nearly 190 coffee farmers in key coffee-growing districts in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak are taking part in a contest on coffee cultivation knowledge and techniques.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has reiterated that all ministries and central authorities act to end the practice of State-owned agencies accepting luxury cars as gifts from private firms or individuals.

A Vietnamese man has been formally charged with smuggling ivory from Angola, VietnamPlus reported, citing Hanoi prosecutors.

Recent statistics have revealed that over 1,000 children across Vietnam are sexually abused on a yearly basis, meaning that one child falls victim every eight hours.

Nineteen people from the northern Vietnamese city of Haiphong have been arrested after being caught using crystal meth during a birthday party at a local karaoke bar.

A network of 359 air quality monitoring stations set to be installed by 2020 are expected to help Hanoi better cope with its worsening air pollution.

An explosion ripped through a steel plant in Vietnam's southern province of Binh Duong on March 14 morning, injuring eight workers.

It is necessary to form a common method for the whole country to evaluate people’s satisfaction about public administration services, heard a teleconference in Hanoi on March 14. 

The Vietnam Buddhism Association in Poland has hosted a requiem for the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defend the homeland’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and seas and islands.

Families of sexually abused children and the community should raise their voice and be resolved in pursuing their cases in order to create a safe and healthy environment for children.

The Vietnamese Government welcomes stronger cooperation between IT firms of Vietnam and Angola, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam told visiting Angolan Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technologies Jose Carvalho da Rocha. 

Over 100kg of suspected rhino horn was discovered in the luggage travelling from Africa to Hanoi on March 14, according to Hanoi Customs.

VOV.VN - The city of Hanoi and Microsoft today (Mar. 14) signed an agreement to collaborate on an endeavour to transform the capital into a smart city. 

VOV.VN - US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius joined by a group of riders from the embassy recently took a 4-day bike through the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang to raise environmental awareness.

VOV.VN - An extraordinary line-up of actors, musicians, athletes and journalists joined the launch of a stand up to cancer Vietnam fundraising event in the province of Bac Ninh.

The central province of Thua Thien Hue sees tourism as an important tool to preserve and develop handicraft villages in its villages’ development plan to 2020 with a vision to 2030.

Vice President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man appreciated contributions to the homeland by the Vietnamese community in Germany at a meeting in Berlin on March 13.

A survey on nearly 600 young Vietnamese drug users has found many of them starting to take heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine and ecstasy when they were just 12 or 13 years old.

VOV.VN - Ms Nguyen Thi Bich Van of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (Molisa) recently told an audience that women across Vietnam continue to battle workplace discrimination when trying to climb the career ladder. 

VOV.VN - Leading experts from the Republic of Korea (ROK) on March 14 held a training seminar in Hanoi for local energy efficiency operators and professionals in the real estate construction industry.

HCM City will publish air and water quality indexes on 48 electronic screens across the city, starting later this month, according to the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee hosted the launch of Vietnamese Consumer Rights Day 2017, themed "Enterprise for Customers", in the city on March 12.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued a code of conduct for international and local tourists, tour operators and locals at tourism spots.

VOV.VN - National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung have visited the cherry blossom festival at Ly Thai To Park, close to Hoan Kiem Lake.

Russian scientists have discovered a way to reduce energy loss inside electric transformers and motors by 66%. 

Ho Chi Minh City has announced plans to organize a street food area from June this year to support poor vendors affected by the sidewalk cleanup campaign, and to preserve its street culture.

A mass poisoning involving methanol-tainted alcohol in Hanoi has raised fresh alarms on the overlooked market where ‘clean-skin’ alcohol – the alcoholic beverages with no label, no manufacturing information and no nutritional facts is widely available at dirt cheap prices.

Dozens of thousands of farmers and fishermen in nine central coastal provinces have benefited from the Coastal Resources for Sustainable Development (CRSD) Project funded by the World Bank (WB) in the past years.