Police from Ho Chi Minh City and southwestern Tay Ninh province have arrested four people for allegedly trying to smuggle four kilogrammes of methamphetamine and ecstasy across the border from Cambodia into Tay Ninh.

Thousands of people flocked to the Mau Son national tourist site in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son on June 16 for a tourism festival.

A festival of voluntary blood donation was held in the central city of Da Nang on June 16, expecting to collect over 1,000 blood units.

A ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the movement of Overseas Vietnamese (OV) in France was held on June 15 at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, where President Ho Chi Minh held a meeting with 2,000 OVs in France on July 15, 1946 during his official visit to the country.

FC Sapa Praha, a football team of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic, has became the champion of the annual friendly football tournament held by the Czech Senate for ethnic communities that kicked off on June 15 in Prague.

Ambassador Nguyen Tam Chien, Chairman of the Vietnam - US Society (VUS) under the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO), received a visiting delegation from the George School in the US state of Pennsylvania in Hanoi on June 15.

A solar power plant with a design capacity of 30MWp was inaugurated in Ninh Phuoc district, the south central province of Ninh Thuan on June 16, in the presence of Standing Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong.

The Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCM CYU) held a ceremony in HCM City on June 16 to honour children from disadvantaged circumstances who reaped outstanding academic results in 2019.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to set up a database on civil status to store and manage basic information related to population management of all citizens by 2020, with total cost estimated at 260 billion VND (11.15 million USD).

Provided with beautiful landscapes, long beaches and rich cultural and marine resources, Binh Dinh province is expected to transform into a key destination for both domestic and foreign visitors.

A ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Asia Dragon Bazar, a shopping centre of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic, recently took place in Cheb city, Karlovarsky province bordering with Germany.

The use of geotubes to protect the Go Cong Dong sea dyke in southern Tien Giang province’s Go Cong Dong district has achieved positive results after two years of implementation, but some of the geotubes have broken, according to local authorities.

A ceremony was held in Ho Chi Minh City on June 15 to mark the 20th anniversary of a fund that provides scholarships to school children of ethnic minority groups, with the participation of Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh.

The Arava International Centre for Agriculture Training (AICAT) in southern Israel on June 14 held a graduation ceremony for Vietnamese students and their peers from 10 other countries who finished their training course on agriculture of the 2018-2019 school year.

Police of the northern province of Lao Cai have arrested three men who illegally transported 16 bricks of heroin in Muong Khuong district.

The southern province of Tra Vinh People’s Committee has decided to invest 35 billion VND (1.5 million USD) in implementing a resettlement project for people affected by landslides in Cau Ngang town and Thuan Hoa commune, Cau Ngang district.

The sixth News Agencies World Congress (NAWC) convened its final discussion session in the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia on June 14.

Vietnam has provided 5,000 tonnes of rice as humanitarian aid to help the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) overcome the consequences of natural disasters.

A seminar was held in the central province of Quang Tri on June 14 to review activities to clear unexploded ordnances (UXO) left over by the war for the 2016 – 2020 period.

Agoda, one of the world’s largest online booking platforms, on June 14 announced the top summer destinations for Vietnamese travellers.