The 24th Mùa hè xanh (Green Summer) Volunteer Campaign kicked off in HCM City yesterday attracting over 60,000 youngsters.

Kanchia, a shy 18-year-old woman, was breastfeeding her infant when a most extraordinary request was made of her.

Experts called for more buses and bus routes and controls on private cars and motorcycles to help ease traffic congestion in HCM City.

Nearly 200 scientists, biologists and conservationists all agreed to reserve top priority on biodiversity protection and stop construction any buildings on the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve of Sơn Trà Peninsula.

Coastal localities, especially central provinces of Thanh Hóa, Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh, have mobilised all sources to prepare for tropical storm Talas that is predicted to make its landfall on the seashore from Thanh Hóa to Hà Tĩnh by 4am today (Monday) with torrential rains of up to 350mm.

A national hotline that would provide legal consultation and assistance to victims of sexual abuse and violence will be launched in the near future, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Bình Định Province People’s Committee has urged sectors and localities to work together to tackle low-quality steel-hulled fishing vessels and to direct fishermen to use quality shipbuilding facilities.

Doctors at Thủ Đức District Hospital last Wednesday (July 12) successfully performed the first knee replacement surgery and ligament reconstruction on a patient with hemophilia A, a genetic disorder of blood clotting.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is setting up a scheme to export high-skilled labour to abroad in an effort to deal with current unemployment at home.