In front of the headquarters of the Hà Nội Department of Planning and Architecture on Tràng Thi Street, dozens of motorbikes and cars stop, wait for a while, look around, hoping against hope that by some miracle a parking space will materialise.

A number of children joined a painting festival with the theme of preventing children sexual abuse which was held by the Central Council for the Young Pioneers yesterday in Hà Nội.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs announced on Sunday that it will temporarily stop enrolling workers from 58 districts to work in South Korea this year.

A range of fresh policies coming into effect this month will force major changes nationwide, including registration before drawing money from the State budget and energy labels on cars and motorbikes.

The HCM City Department of Construction is seeking ideas of a new system of house numbering to resolve the house number chaos in the city.

The Criminal Investigation Police Department has joined forces with police in the northern province of Bắc Ninh to detain a group of people for threatening the chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and several other officials, Major General Hồ Sỹ Tiến, director of the department, announced Saturday.

It has been eight years since Ly Van Hấp, a retired official, made use of his ancestors’ land and opened a wet market for poor vendors on T1 Street in HCM City’s Tân Phú District.

Hoàng Lê Kha High School of Tây Ninh Province and Trần Đại Nghĩa and Mạc Đĩnh Chi High Schools in HCM City won first prizes in the Open, Interschool and SRobot Clip at the fifth “Having Fun with Robots – Learning good Pascal” competition (SRobot), organisers announced last Saturday.

Public concern is once again inspiring changes to education programmes in schools, with calls for more sex education to be included in the curriculum so that children can better protect themselves from sexual abuse.