Đào Xuân Hoàng, a Vietnamese entrepreneur, won first prize for an education application at the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech-I competition held in Silicon Valley yesterday.

Four crew members were seriously injured and three fishermen remain missing after an explosion occurred on a fishing boat offshore the southwestern province of Kiên Giang.

Hundreds of farming households in An Biên District of the southern Kiên Giang Province failed to reap any rice this year due to saline water encroaching into their fields.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has asked schools to take preventive measures and provide information about dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth prevention to teachers and parents.

The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence announced the initial outcomes of the search and rescue operations for the SU30 MK2 and CASA 212 aircraft yesterday.

The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Việt Nam, the State Audit of Việt Nam (SAV), and the French International Technique Expertise Agency (Expertise France) have launched a project supporting SAV.

HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment to repair four kilometres of old water drainage systems in central districts.

The Mekong Delta Forum 2016, entitled “Committed to a Prosperous and Climate Resilient Mekong Delta”, will be organised in HCM City on June 27 and 28, 2016 to discuss solutions for the critical challenges posed by climate change in the region.

Over 600 anaesthesiologists from Viêt Nam and 30 from abroad gathered for the 7^th Việt Nam Anaesthesiology Association Congress that opened in the central city of Quy Nhơn yesterday.