VOV.VN -Archdaily, one of the world's most popular architecture websites, recently showcased a house in the Vietnamese coastal city Nha Trang on its website.

Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested two robbers dressed as women who flirted with an Australian man and snatched his phone in the backpackers’ area on November 18.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has some of the best university-based teacher training programs in the world, said Deputy Minister Nguyen Minh Hien of the Ministry of Education of Training at a recent forum in Hanoi.

The US Agency for International Development will fund a US$10 million project on preserving rare species through reducing demand for illegal wildlife products. 

Health experts gathered at a workshop in Hanoi on November 17 to discuss a draft project designed to improve the population situation, reproductive health and family planning services for adolescents and youths. 

The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has helped build more than 8.7 million clean water and sanitation facilities for family use in the past 12 years under its credit programme designed for the purpose. 

 A delegation from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) had a working session with Yen Bai authorities on November 18 on the pace of a pilot rural development programme launched in the northern mountainous province since May.

Challenges facing the modern media and how to cope with them were the focus of discussion at the November 18 discussion at the 16th General Assembly of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Drought and saltwater intrusion in Vietnam’s southern region will be less severe in the 2016-2017 dry season, said the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. 

VOV.VN - Health officials on November 18 reported eight more local Zika infections, raising the total to 46 Ho Chi Minh City residents who have acquired the disease from mosquitoes in the country this year.

Local authorities should get more involved and significantly improve their management of environmental issues, Chu Pham Ngoc Hien, Deputy Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, said on November 17.

Minimum wage for contracted employees will increase between VND180,000-250,000 (US$8.18-11.3) per month from January 1, 2017, according to a decree issued by the Government. 

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has urged ministries and agencies to boost efforts to assist victims of the toxic spill by the Taiwanese Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Co. Ltd.

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group, or PetroVietnam, has proposed to add the construction of the Nhon Trach 3 and 4 thermal power plants to plans for national electricity development. 

A seminar, themed “The role of bicycle transportation in the city – International experiment exchange and how to apply it in Vietnam”, took place on November 17 in Hanoi as part of the ongoing international exhibition Vietnam Cycle 2016. 

An official from the EU Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has suggested several policies on health care and education to develop vocational skills for rural workers in Vietnam at a recent workshop in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - An architectural firm from the Republic of Korea (ROK) submitted a proposal on November 18 to the city of Can Tho to construct its first smart bridge that would include technology never seen before in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - More than 98,000 Vietnam guest workers went abroad during the first ten months of 2016, up 16.98% against last year’s same period and nearly reaching 100% of the entire calendar year 2016 target.

VOV.VN - JICA Vice Chair Shinya Ejima held talks on November 18 with the Municipal People’s Committee in Ho Chi Minh City regarding the best way to proceed in financing and implementing infrastructure projects. 

Vietnam has successfully performed nearly 1,400 organ transplant surgeries over the past 20 years, said Le Quang Cuong, Deputy Minister of Health. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 17 joined residents in Dien Bien ward, Hanoi’s Ba Dinh district, at the great national unity festival, which was held on the occasion of the 86th anniversary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) (November 18). 

The fourth of the six volume Czech-Vietnamese encyclopedia was released at the Embassy of Vietnam in Prague, the Czech Republic on November 16. 

Traditional motorbike taxi drivers in Ho Chi Minh City are helpless and infuriated as their livelihood is threatened by a new generation of technology-based drivers.

With a passion for helping others, a group of volunteers have formed to help pick nails from the streets and fix punctures on motorbikes traveling on the highway that connects Ho Chi Minh City with the coastal city of Vung Tau.

Some ancient limestone caves in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site visited by millions of tourists each year, have been damaged, local officials said.

RMIT University Vietnam’s Master of Architecture programmes, which can be taken on a full-time or part-time basis, will accept its first intake in 2017.

The annual charity race Run for the Heart 2016 will be held on December 3 at LePARC commercial centre in Yen So park in Hanoi’s Hoang Mai district.

A Chinese man was caught stealing from the luggage of another passenger on a flight to Hanoi on November 17, local media reported.

A wide variety of activities were held in numerous provinces and cities around the country on November 16 to celebrate the 34th Vietnamese Teachers’ Day (November 20, 1982-2016).

 Ho Chi Minh City should take intervention measures to build itself into a safe city that prevents women and girls from sexual harassment and other forms of sexually violence in public spaces.