Three Lao citizens were arrested on May 23 for trafficking meth pills into Vietnam.

A workshop on integrating gender issue in socio-economic development plans for ethnic minority, mountainous, and disadvantaged areas took place in the central city of Da Nang on May 23.

Local authorities need to learn more about the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and offer solutions to reduce the poverty rate in Ho Chi Minh City, Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Vo Thi Dung said at a workshop on sustainable poverty reduction held on May 22.

A delegation from several ministries led by Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs Nguyen Quoc Cuong is paying a working visit to Cambodia from May 22-24.

Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu, who is also head of the trade union of Vietnamese banks, met with a trade union delegation of Belarus’s finance-banking sector in Hanoi on May 22.

The Vietnam Year in Russia and the Russia Year in Vietnam were launched at a ceremony in Moscow on May 22 night, with the Prime Ministers of the two countries attending.

The Vu A Dinh Award, which is dedicated to honouring contributors to ethnic minority communities, had its 10th anniversary marked with a ceremony in Hanoi on May 22.

An international seminar on the role of journalism in tourism development took place in Ha Long city of the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 22.

Vietnam will be represented by three students at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship 2019 (MOSWC), slated to take place in the US on July 28.

A total of 203 Vietnamese people passed Japan’s exam for working visas in the restaurant industry under the country’s new visa system, the Japanese government announced on May 21.

The People’s Court of the central province of Binh Thuan on May 21 handed down sentences ranging from 11-17 years to two defendants involved in disturbances of social order in Phan Ri Thanh commune, Bac Binh district.

Hai Duong police said on May 21 that they have arrested a woman for trafficking 30 bricks of heroin, the largest amount ever seized in the northern province.

As many as 17 Lao nationals living in Dak Glei district of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum were granted Vietnamese citizenship certificates during a ceremony on May 21.

The World Bank (WB) in Vietnam and the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) held a workshop in Hanoi on May 21 to announce the research results on factors affecting the socio-economic development of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam.

The Prime Minister has approved the planning tasks regarding the development of the Mau Son national tourism site in the northern province of Lang Son to 2040.

Nearly 1 million disadvantaged students and teachers in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have been assisted through the education and talent promotion fund over the last 12 years.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to mobilise social resources to support children in extremely disadvantaged communes in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the establishment of the National Steering Committee on Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Prevention and Control.

Party Committees at all levels, local administrations and social organisations must make strong efforts to fight African swine fever, said a directive issued on May 20 by the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat.

May 27 this year will mark 25 years since Vietnam’s first 500kV power transmission line was switched on, connecting the north and south of the country with an uninterrupted electricity supply.