The representative office of the Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City has presented a certificate of merit to Professor, Dr. Vo Tong Xuan for his contributions to friendship between Vietnam and Japan. 

Media in Thailand reported on November 24 that their marine police captured two Vietnamese fishing boats with nine fishermen on board for illegally fishing off Narathiwat province in south Thailand.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the UN, and Hanoi’s People’s Committee have launched an Action Month for Gender Equality and Prevention of Gender-based Violence.

A Chinese man has been transferred to police officers after he was discovered stealing over US$17,000 from a passenger onboard a plane landing at an airport in central Vietnam on November 24.

Anti-drug crime police of northern Hoa Binh province and relevant forces caught red-handed two individuals transporting 20 bricks of heroin and 2,000 synthetic drug pills on the night of November 23.

Up to 14,539 Vietnamese children were adopted in 2011-2015, with 12,768 fostered domestically and the remainder lived with foreign foster families, said the Justice Ministry’s Department of Adoption. 

Southern Dong Nai province hopes to receive more support from Japanese firms in training high-quality human resources  for industrial development in the locality, a local official has said. 

VOV.VN - The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting announced on November 24 that a tropical depression has formed in the eastern sea area south of the Philippines and is heading towards the East Sea. 

Deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Lam Thi Phuong Thanh has praised successes reaped by the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic during her trip to the country from November 21-23.

VOV.VN - President of the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Nguyen The Ky on November 24 hosted a reception at its company headquarters in Hanoi for visiting Director General Vaclav Mika of Radio and Television Slovakia. 

Vietnam’s environment ministry has called on further assistance from local and international organisations to help Vietnam successfully implement the Paris Agreement, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan confirmed on November 23.

Strengthening communications to raise public awareness of traffic laws is the most effective and economical way to ensure traffic safety, said Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) President Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Four Laotian and Thai nationals have been arrested after attempting to smuggle 69 heroin cakes into the north-central Vietnamese province of Nghe An.

Multimedia and information firm Thomson Reuters has released a list of researchers with major global influence and there are five Vietnamese.

Vietnam's government has approved a new educational masterplan that will cut the study time for college students by a year in a bid to scale up the workforce more quickly.

All but four out of 63 Vietnamese cities and provinces are slated to have their area code for landline numbers changed by February 2017, under a decision that not everyone is happy about.

The current separation of numbers for criminal, fire, and medical emergencies will be merged into a single emergency number, 114, according to an official at the municipal information department.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City are expected to add some 300 new low-floor buses to its existing fleet in a bid to provide better services and convenience for disabled passengers.

The People’s Committee of the central city of Da Nang has urged all projects serving the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Year 2017 to be completed by June 30, 2017.

Secretary-General of the Vietnam-USA Society (VUS) Bui Van Nghi hosted a reception in Hanoi on November 23 for a delegation from the American Veterans Union (AVU), who are on a working trip to Vietnam.

Children affected by HIV/AIDS continue to face discrimination and other challenges despite significant gains made in efforts to help them, officials said at a meeting on November 22.  

Hanoi will create the most favourable conditions for Austrian enterprises to invest in water and waste treatment, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung.

VOV.VN - GIZ and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on November 23 hold a workshop on the outcome of COP 22 and the plan for the implementation of the Paris Agreement in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Fed by flammable materials inside the facility, a fire consumed a helmet factory on November 23 in the Binh Chanh District of Ho Chi Minh City and quickly spread to nearby homes, a fire official said.

Hundreds of stroke victims hospitalised in the Danang General Hospital over the past three years were saved by a special task force for stroke victims, the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Newspaper reported.

There are 21,403 Vietnamese students in the US, giving the Southeast Asian nation the sixth largest source of international students in the country.

The Australian government on November 22 launched a Gender Equality Strategy for Vietnam for the first time, outlining its plans to promote women’s empowerment in Vietnam.

Police of Nam Tu Liem district in Hanoi busted a drug trafficking ring in northern Vietnam involving 40 heroin bricks and 17,851 synthetic drug pills.

The US$450-million system is much faster than the Asia America Gateway, which the country has relied on over the past years.

A dialogue on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) between young people, the Government and partners took place in Hanoi on November 22.