Trần Nguyên Đán, an insurance and financial risks management lecturer from HCM City University of Economics, talks to Tuổi Trẻ newspaper on inconsistencies in current insurance regulations.

Several laws and regulations that were supposed to be developed following Việt Nam’s new Constitution in 2013 are still yet to materialise, let alone be ratified, according to the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee.

From June 21 to June 30, the Republic of Belarus will host the second European Games – an international multi-sport competition between athletes from across the European continent held every four years under the direction of the European Olympic Committee.

Top Vietnamese vocalists will perform at Spring Concert: The Warm Arms, which will be held at the Việt Xô Friendship Cultural Palace on April 8.

The lawmakers should reconsider the feasibility of a draft regulation asking primary school teachers to have university diplomas given that up to 40 per cent of primary teachers currently fail to meet such requirement, the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children (CCEYC) said on Monday.

In Việt Nam, getting into a university can be considered a national obsession. However, after each cut-throat university entrance competition, the number of students remaining until graduation steadily declining over the years have become a concern for educators.

In early August, locals in a mountainous area of the south-central province of Bình Định called rangers to report something odd: a large group of strangers cutting down trees in a nearby natural forest.

Spanish football federation president Angel Maria Villar, in custody following his arrest on corruption charges, was suspended for a year on Tuesday by the country's sports ministry (CSD), a spokesperson said.

France will ask the UN Security Council to authorise an African military force for the Sahel region that will be sent to root out jihadists and drug traffickers, the French ambassador said on Tuesday.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has conceded that while the Government keeps stressing the importance of grassroots healthcare stations, people don’t have much faith in them.