Diverging from the common view that a smart city only means leveraging technology to resolve social issues, the southern province of Bình Dương has opted for a different path: building a smart city with focus on people, knowledge and smart co-operation, Dr. Nguyễn Việt Long, director of the Bình Dương Smart City Office, said.

The HCM City Buddhist Sangha elected a new executive board to serve in the 2017-2022 period at a conference yesterday.

In the first 10 months, 45 cases of measles – including one death – have been recorded in Hà Nội, against the northern region’s 99 cases and the country’s total figure of 229 cases.

A lack of nutrition among pregnant women and those breastfeeding their babies is common in Việt Nam, with deficiencies in zinc, folate, vitamin A and calcium, according to experts.

Officials from the naval command of the north central coast carry the body of a fisherman whose boat sank because of Typhoon Damrey near Quy Nhơn Port back to the mainland.

Health authorities have confirmed bacteria as the main cause behind a mass poisoning that affected hundreds of children at two primary schools in the southern province of Hậu Giang after they drank a mixture of chocolate milk late last month.

Quality assurance to uplift higher education will ensure a country has a highly qualified workforce, Assoc Prof Nantana Gajaseni, acting chairwoman of the ASEAN University Network - Quality Assurance (AUN-QA), has said.

Students of Trần Văn Ơn Primary School in HCM City’s District 12 yesterday (November 7) learnt about road safety, including the right way to wear helmets, through games.

The Ministry of Transport has rejected the proposal to increase toll fee at the Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) Bắc Thăng Long-Nội Bài toll collection station.

The number of dead people due to typhoon Damrey now raised to 69, 20 people higher than the Monday report of central and south central localities – where the typhoon churned through.

Hoàng Thị Minh Hồ, 104, wife of patriotic bourgeois Trịnh Văn Bô, who made generous contribution to the revolutionary government, passed away on Sunday.

Continuous heavy rains have worsened the inundation due to heavy floods that occurred on Sunday morning in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

The Điện Biên Province Border Guards, in co-ordination with the Laos’ Phongsaly Province's Security Headquarters, during the early hours of Tuesday, destroyed a complex heroin trafficking ring.

Forty-six labour export companies have had their licences revoked, according to a report by the Department of Overseas Labour (DoLAB), under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

As universities become financially independent, ethnic minority students enrolled in special majors may suffer tuition fee increases when their instituions impose fee levels higher than the Government's ceiling.

The failure to detect cancer early, compounded by the lack of insurance for such detection, has led to a high cancer death rate in Việt Nam.

 The National Assembly’s Judicial Committee urged the Government to complete mechanisms and regulations to monitor citizens’ income, especially public servants with a focus on improving transparency and accountability.

While housing developers in HCM City are looking for occupants for over 15,000 apartments they have built, city authorities are saying more such apartments are needed to resettle people moved out of their houses for various reasons.