Experts at a forum held on Tuesday in HCM City urged the adoption of a more effective vocational education model that will deliver advanced job skills and be responsive to the needs of the labour market.

Việt Nam’s national cancer control strategy needed to address the serious problem of infectious agents, blamed for more than 20 per cent of malignancies in the world, Professor Nguyễn Chấn Hùng, chairman of Việt Nam Cancer Society, said this week.

All 17 Việt Nam-Cambodia friendship monuments in Cambodia will see their repairs and upgrades completed by the first quarter of next year, the Cambodian side reported to the Vietnamese military, which is funding the work.

Local authorities have been asked to complete re-inforcing a broken dyke on one river in Bình Định Province and inspect risky points around the clock to prevent further outbursts.

Building smart cities is the main and priority orientation in the development strategy of the Việt Nam Government.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) of Region III rescued two fishermen on a sinking ship offshore Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu Province on December 4.

The Việt Nam Embassy in Russia is appealing for help for Vietnamese victims of the fire that occurred last Saturday at the Mir shopping centre on the Avenue of Victory, Orenburg City, Russia, also known as “the mall of Vietnamese.”

The Vietnam National University - Hồ Chí Minh City will continue to adopt conceiving-designing-implementing-operating (CDIO) as the framework for its member universities’ curriculum planning and outcome-based assessment until 2020.

Police of the northern province of Son La, in collaboration with anti-trafficking customs authorities, have arrested two men suspected of trafficking drugs.