The northern province of Ninh Binh has launched a tourism promotion on video app TikTok as part of #HelloVietnam programme.

VCCorp has informed that the pilot version of its “Lotus” social network will officially be launched on September 16.

The southernmost province of Ca Mau is prompting actions in response to the serious erosion along the dyke system in its western sea area.

Over recent months, more than 1,000 ha of plants of crops have withered and died due to a serious drought in M’Drak district, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

Hanoi is striving to have no households living under the poverty line by the end of this year.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in the central province of Binh Dinh on August 20 to recognise An Nhon township and Hoai Nhon district as meeting new rural development criteria.

A visiting delegation from Japan’s Hiroshima prefecture had a working session with Can Tho’s authorities in the Mekong Delta city on August 20 to look at possibilities of bilateral collaboration across fields.

A total of 2,402 out of 3,474 communes in the Red River Delta and the north central region (69.1 percent) had met the standards of new-style rural areas as of the end of July.

The Government Committee for Religious Affairs and the visiting Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) delegation held talks on August 20 to share experience in the state management of religious affairs.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on August 20 presented certificates of merit to nine fishermen in Go Cong town for saving 22 Philippine sailors who met an accident at sea.

Budget carrier Vietjet is selling thousands of super-saving tickets from August 20-22 in order to celebrate its two newest international routes from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to New Delhi, India.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue on August 20 received 303 scholarships worth over 2 billion VND (about 85,950 USD) granted to local students from the Pacific Links Foundation of the US.

The Ministry of Construction’s latest draft regulations on apartment building management and use stipulates that there should be three to five co-holders of the apartment maintenance fund.

More than 250 documents, objects, photos and documentaries featuring Vietnam’s achievements during the 50-year implementation of President Ho Chi Minh’s Testament are on display at the Hanoi-based Ho Chi Minh Museum.

A string of measures have been carried out in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh to realise the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction.

The Meet Vietnam Association, the Loyola University Chicago and the International Geographical Union held an international symposium in the central province of Binh Dinh on August 19 on reducing ocean plastic wastes: education model for educationalists.

The investigation agency of Ho Chi Minh City’s Police has started legal proceedings against eight defendants for illegally trading and storing drugs.

The Vietnam-Cambodia border friendship exchange programme at the level of High Command will take place in the southern province of An Giang from August 27 to 28.

A seminar was held in the southern province of Dong Nai on August 19 to discuss a project to support people with disabilities caused by Agent Orange/dioxin sprayed on seven localities of Vietnam during the war.

The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations held a ceremony on August 19 to celebrate the 52nd founding anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).