Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday visited the International Media Centre (IMC) in Hà Nội to inspect preparations ahead of this week’s DPRK-USA Summit.

The HCM City chapter of the Vietnam Red Cross Society will seek support from local and international organisations, enterprises and individuals to help 10,000 charity organisations, poor and orphaned people and Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims and people with disabilities this year.

Police in central Thanh Hóa Province’s Triệu Sơn District are investigating the alleged physical abuse of an eight-year-old girl by her father.

Nearly 70 per cent of schools in the country lack yard space for students to exercise, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Former ministers of Information and Communications Nguyễn Bắc Son and Trương Minh Tuấn were prosecuted and put into custody on Saturday with the accusation of violating provisions on the public investment capital management and use and causing serious consequences.

Phùng Đức Tiến, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks to Việt Nam News reporter Gia Lộc about measures to prevent the spread of African swine fever in Việt Nam, including the southern region.

A high-speed rail route between HCM City and Cần Thơ will help smoothen passenger and cargo transport in the Mekong Delta, transportation experts have said.

Farmers in the south-eastern province of Bình Phước are entering the peak black pepper harvest season but suffer from a shortage of workers.

Việt Nam's labour market is predicted to hit 56 million in 2019, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has announced.