Over 100 participants attended a forum held yesterday in Hà Nội to discuss and gain a greater understanding of Việt Nam’s legal framework addressing child sexual exploitation, with a particular focus on child sex tourism.
Many households in northern mountainous Hoà Bình Province have destroyed their cultivated land in search for gold, claiming that they have dug shrimp ponds to avoid local authority’s supervision.
The central province of Qhang Nam plans to build four hydro-power plants in the mountainous district of Nam Trà My for socio-economic development of a key national ginseng centre.
The HCM City Young Employee Assistance Center held a summer camp in Cần Giờ District on July 13-14 for workers’ children aged 11-16.
Vice President Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh on Thursday paid floral tribute to martyrs at Hàng Dương Cemetery in Côn Đảo District, the southern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu, in the lead-up to the 70th anniversary of Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27).
A low-pressure system has formed in the East Sea, around 160km south-southeast of Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Archipelago, at 7am on Friday.
The Military Central Commission of the Việt Nam People’s Army has co-operated closely with the Việt Nam People’s Public Security and other forces to firmly protect the independence, territorial integrity and security of the homeland, including in the air and off shore islands.
The Bạch Mã National Park has been selected as the site for the world’s only breeding centre for the saola, the extremely elusive forest-dwelling bovine only found in the forests of Việt Nam and Laos.
Major structural flaws have been discovered on the Tân Vũ-Lạch Huyện Bridge in Hải Phòng, set to become Southeast Asia’s longest cross-sea bridge when it opens. The management board of the joint Japanese-Vietnamese project has until the end of this week to explain the problems and detail its plans to fix them.
Several items suspected to be belongings of dead soldiers of the Liberation Army were uncovered on Thursday, following days of excavation in an open field west of the busy Tân Sơn Nhất Airport.
Vân Đồn District in Quảng Ninh province plans to carry out forceful removal of construction violators in the protected Bái Tử Long Bay national park.
The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia’s leading English daily, has joined Asia News Network (ANN), an alliance now comprising 23 media in 19 Asian countries.
Four members of a family were found dead from inhaling smoke in an early morning fire that broke out today in Hà Nội.
A three-year agreement of cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) was signed yesterday.
A ship from the Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 2 rescued an ill fisherman on a fishing boat and took the victim to Đà Nẵng’s port Thursday morning.
Vietnamese farmers continue to face difficulties while practicing recognised farming standards for safe products, such as VietGap and GlobalGap. Customers, meanwhile, have no option but to select food wisely for their families’ healthy living, Vietnamese and Japanese agricultural experts have said.
Three teenagers were killed on the spot and two other people were seriously injured when a motorbike crashed into two cars at Wednesday midnight on Hà Nội’s Chương Dương Bridge.
State employees and workers nationwide will get three days off on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of National Day (September 2) this year.
Hundreds of parents have joined the competition of lucky draws to get a place for their kids at State-owned pre-schools, especially in the new urban areas of Hà Nội, due to the severe shortage of public facilities there.
It is high time that Việt Nam should strengthen education on legal knowledge and life skills for young citizens, especially adolescents, to have self-restraint capacity to deal with conflicts positively and humanly, psychologists have said.
