Professor Gerard’t Hooft, Dutch Nobel Laureate in Physics and his wife arrived in Bình Định on Sunday afternoon.

Hundreds of tonnes of fish being bred in the rivers of Phú Thọ, Phú Yên and Bình Thuận provinces died recently because of floodwater discharge and changes in water quality.

A Vietnamese rescue ship on Sunday brought in the body of a Greek crewman and handed it over to relevant authorities on the mainland, online newspaper vov.vn reported.

Hoàng Thị Hiền, owner of a private health clinic in Hưng Yên Province, has been suspended from work for 15 days while investigation into her illegal treatment of phimosis in boys is underway.

High schools students in Hà Nội collected more than 6.5 tonnes of waste paper and old books in five days during an event named “Lượm Đây” ( Collecting Day).

Public schools in HCM City need to hire nearly 3,000 teachers for the upcoming academic year starting next month since the number of students and classrooms are set to increase, Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Sài Gòn) newspaper reported quoting figures from district education divisions.

In a house sandwiched at a small stone-paved alley of southern Đồng Nai Province, a three-year-old baby girl nicknamed Nhân Thiên (Human Heaven) sat next to a slim Buddhist nun, selecting seeds to grow vegetables.

New medical graduates could be required to work for three to five years at healthcare centres in outlying regions to meet a critical lack of doctors and help improve healthcare services there.

 Parents scurrying to send their children to the many life skills classes blooming in the big cities has been a trend that has been picking up lately. These classes, organised during the three-month summer vacation in Việt Nam, claim to train children on important communication and survival skills that can then be applied to real-life situations.