VOV.VN - The US Mission to Vietnam and the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA) recently launched two new projects worth more than US$2 million as part of efforts to cope with wildlife trafficking and reduce illegal wildlife consumption.

VOV.VN - The government of Vietnam continued to lower retail petrol prices to below VND20,000 per litre as of 3p.m. on September 12, following a similar fall a week earlier.

The Vietnamese-funded Thong Nhat secondary school was inaugurated on August 31 in Khammouane and handed over to the association of Vietnamese in the Lao province.

VOV.VN - Retail sale prices of oil and petrol were all adjusted down from 3 p.m. on August 22 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Finance.

VOV.VN - The Netherlands’ The & GREEN Fund unveiled plans on August 15 that it will provide up to US$25 million in funding to Phuc Sinh Corporation, one of the key Vietnamese coffee and pepper exporters, to develop a deforestation-free coffee value chain in a sustainable manner.

A conference to review the results of a project on expanding opportunities and improving the status for persons with disabilities for the 2021-2024 period was jointly organised by the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of central Thua Thien-Hue province and the Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC) on August 14.

VOV.VN - Petrol prices were adjusted down from 3 p.m. on August 1 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Finance, the fourth time in a row.

Vietnam's economy recovered rapidly in the first half of 2024 after a challenging period at the end of 2022 and early 2023, thanks to its government’s drastic actions, according to Paulo Medas, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s 2024 Article IV Mission to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Park Hang-seo, former chief coach of the Vietnam national football team, will lead his ex- players in a friendly match to raise funds for charity in Binh Duong, southern Vietnam, on July 12.

VOV.VN - Retail prices of petrol rose by more than VND500 per litre in their fourth consecutive increase as from 3pm on July 4, following the latest adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Finance.