Hà Nội University of Science and Technology (HUST) and UTS:INSEARCH, the University of Technology Sydney’s English college, have launched a programme to boost the English language skills of Vietnamese researchers.

Scientists and government officials have urged stronger connectivity among countries through which the Mekong River flows to enhance adaptation to climate change and reduce its effects such as saline intrusion and drought. 

 A new online portal will enable Vietnamese people living overseas to learn Vietnamese via the Internet, following a project recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

The Việt Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has asked the National Salary Council to increase regional minimum wages in 2017 by 10-11 per cent from the current rates.

A passenger coach collided head-on with a car in the central Đà Nẵng City early this morning, seriously injuring four people.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed all city agencies and city-owned enterprises to replace communication by paper with text messages and emails.

The Ministry of Information and Communications and the Việt Nam Youth Union yesterday launched a writing contest on Việt Nam’s sovereignty over its sea and islands for young overseas Vietnamese.

Motorbikes were the main cause of traffic accidents in Hồ Chí Minh City in the first six months of the year, a meeting on traffic safety heard yesterday afternoon.

The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has said it will step up checks of service establishments that are likely to surreptitiously employ sex workers to combat prostitution.