Around 1.5 million students nationwide, or 7.5 per cent of all students, have not joined the national health insurance scheme, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

HCM City is renovating old apartment buildings and removing makeshift houses on or along canals as part of its urban renovation and development plan for the 2016-2020 period.

Hà Nội’s Department of Transport has submitted to the city’s People’s Committee the route for a double-decker bus tour, the first of its kind for tourists in the capital city.

Inundation in lowland areas in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province continued on Thursday as floodwater from two floods that occurred earlier this week was receding very slowly and water level of the local rivers remained high.

A new typhoon named Haikui is building in the East Sea (South China Sea) on Friday morning, as Việt Nam struggles to rebuild the country after the damages caused by devastating Typhoon Damrey.

The European Union (EU) on Wednesday issued a joint statement sending condolences to Việt Nam over losses caused by recent Typhoon Damrey.

As cybersecurity has become more important than ever in today’s connected world, local authorities are taking steps to protect national and personal security.

New technologies that work at the nanolevel can now produce nano materials for mass market products, Jean-Charles Guibert, chairman of MINATEC, one of the largest world-wide innovation campuses in micro-nano-bio technologies, said.

Reducing the gender gap in the areas of politics and labor force participation was among the top issues at the on-going session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) deputies yesterday, during the broader discussion of the national target on gender equality.