OANA helps popularise official news: VNA chief

Since its establishment in 1961 as part of an UNESCO initiative, the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) has become a forum from which news is directly exchanged among news agencies, helping to spread official news from each country to the region and the world, head of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has said.

Kiên Giang urged to tap potential for stronger development

Party General Secretary, President Nguyễn Phú Trọng has asked authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang to fully tap its potential and strengths, especially in agriculture and tourism, in order to perform its tasks and orientations set for 2019. 

How to get single, the hard way?

A man in the southern province of Bạc Liêu has been sentenced to six months in prison for falsifying single status certificates to separately marry two women when he has not even divorced from his first wife.

Health insurance coverage for ARV drug key to HIV treatment: VSS

HIV carriers in Việt Nam started to have health insurance fund covered their anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs in March this year as a solution to ensure financial sources for patients when international donors ended their sponsorship. Lê Văn Phúc, head of pharmacy and medical supply department of Việt Nam Social Security talks to Thời Báo Kinh Tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times).

Huế police raid drug dens

Nine suspects were arrested, while 5kg of cannabis, VNĐ100 million (US$4,300) and other items were seized

Ministry tells coal enterprises to report on charcoal theft

The General Department of Geology and Minerals of Việt Nam under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has asked key coal enterprises to supervise the management and use of charcoal and other kinds of minerals discharged from mining areas.  

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