An essential services package for women and girls subjected to violence was launched on Wednesday by the United Nations in Việt Nam and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged the Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) and its members to continuously expand the organisation's humanitarian role and value in the domestic and international communities.

The cold spell in the northern region strengthened and brought down the temperature to below 8 degrees Celsius in mountainous areas on Wednesday.

Four people died and others were left seriously injured after their car crashed into a truck on Tuesday afternoon.

Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday ordered the immediate transfer of critically ill infants from a provincial hospital to centrally-administered ones.

The National Assembly (NA) will decide the fate of a future high-speed railway in Việt Nam in 2019 after the transport ministry completes a project report, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said this week.

The eighth National Congress of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) opened in Hà Nội yesterday with the participation of 1250 delegates including VBS dignitaries; monks and nuns; leaders and former leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front and representatives of international organisations.

The Christian Fellowship Church of Việt Nam began its fifth congress at its headquarters in Thới Tam Thôn commune in HCM City’s Hóc Môn District yesterday.

Daily Limited Company, the operator of the delayed water bus service in HCM City, said the first boats would begin plying on November 25.