The Tây Ninh Province Department of Transport has green lighted Tây Ninh Tourist Trading Joint-stock Company’s proposal to operate electric buses on a trial basis in downtown Tây Ninh city and Hòa Thành District from early next year.

Over 100 participants attended a forum held yesterday in Hà Nội to discuss and gain a greater understanding of Việt Nam’s legal framework addressing child sexual exploitation, with a particular focus on child sex tourism.

The central province of Qhang Nam plans to build four hydro-power plants in the mountainous district of Nam Trà My for socio-economic development of a key national ginseng centre.

Many households in northern mountainous Hoà Bình Province have destroyed their cultivated land in search for gold, claiming that they have dug shrimp ponds to avoid local authority’s supervision.

The HCM City Young Employee Assistance Center held a summer camp in Cần Giờ District on July 13-14 for workers’ children aged 11-16.

Vice President Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh on Thursday paid floral tribute to martyrs at Hàng Dương Cemetery in Côn Đảo District, the southern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu, in the lead-up to the 70th anniversary of Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27). 

A low-pressure system has formed in the East Sea, around 160km south-southeast of Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Archipelago, at 7am on Friday.

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.