The Military Central Commission of the Việt Nam People’s Army has co-operated closely with the Việt Nam People’s Public Security and other forces to firmly protect the independence, territorial integrity and security of the homeland, including in the air and off shore islands.

The Bạch Mã National Park has been selected as the site for the world’s only breeding centre for the saola, the extremely elusive forest-dwelling bovine only found in the forests of Việt Nam and Laos.

Vân Đồn District in Quảng Ninh province plans to carry out forceful removal of construction violators in the protected Bái Tử Long Bay national park.

Several items suspected to be belongings of dead soldiers of the Liberation Army were uncovered on Thursday, following days of excavation in an open field west of the busy Tân Sơn Nhất Airport.

Major structural flaws have been discovered on the Tân Vũ-Lạch Huyện Bridge in Hải Phòng, set to become Southeast Asia’s longest cross-sea bridge when it opens. The management board of the joint Japanese-Vietnamese project has until the end of this week to explain the problems and detail its plans to fix them.

The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia’s leading English daily, has joined Asia News Network (ANN), an alliance now comprising 23 media in 19 Asian countries.

Four members of a family were found dead from inhaling smoke in an early morning fire that broke out today in Hà Nội.

A three-year agreement of cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) was signed yesterday.

A ship from the Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 2 rescued an ill fisherman on a fishing boat and took the victim to Đà Nẵng’s port Thursday morning.