Health authorities have confirmed bacteria as the main cause behind a mass poisoning that affected hundreds of children at two primary schools in the southern province of Hậu Giang after they drank a mixture of chocolate milk late last month.

Quality assurance to uplift higher education will ensure a country has a highly qualified workforce, Assoc Prof Nantana Gajaseni, acting chairwoman of the ASEAN University Network - Quality Assurance (AUN-QA), has said.

Students of Trần Văn Ơn Primary School in HCM City’s District 12 yesterday (November 7) learnt about road safety, including the right way to wear helmets, through games.

The Ministry of Transport has rejected the proposal to increase toll fee at the Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) Bắc Thăng Long-Nội Bài toll collection station.

The number of dead people due to typhoon Damrey now raised to 69, 20 people higher than the Monday report of central and south central localities – where the typhoon churned through.

Hoàng Thị Minh Hồ, 104, wife of patriotic bourgeois Trịnh Văn Bô, who made generous contribution to the revolutionary government, passed away on Sunday.

Continuous heavy rains have worsened the inundation due to heavy floods that occurred on Sunday morning in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

The Điện Biên Province Border Guards, in co-ordination with the Laos’ Phongsaly Province's Security Headquarters, during the early hours of Tuesday, destroyed a complex heroin trafficking ring.

Forty-six labour export companies have had their licences revoked, according to a report by the Department of Overseas Labour (DoLAB), under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MoLISA).