President Nguyen Xuan Phuc joined teachers and students of Hope School in the central city of Da Nang in their "Going to school festival" on August 26.

A Vietnam-Republic of Korea (RoK) care centre was inaugurated in the northern port city of Hai Phong, as part of a project funded by the Hyundai Mortor Group of the RoK.

The Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Tourism of the northern port city of Hai Phong held a workshop on August 26 to seek breakthroughs in local tourism amid the fourth industrial revolution.

A new partnership between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Việt Nam and the Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI) was signed on Thursday.

Police in the northern border province of Lao Cai recently busted a ring that smuggled people into Vietnam.

The Ministry of Transport has asked domestic airlines to increase flights during the four-day National Day holiday (September 1-4) to better meet passengers’ travelling demand.

Đặng Hương Lan and Nguyễn Văn Hòa have been hand-making traditional Mid-Autumn Festival masks for decades. Learning the craft from their grandparents, the couple make brightly coloured artisanal masks using paper mache.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City will enhance coordination with the municipal Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs in carrying out tasks related to OVs under their joint working programme for 2020-2024 period.

HCM City has called for relevant authorities to focus more on improving traffic order at Tân Sơn Nhất Airport to curb the airport’s chaotic traffic conditions.

Plan International Vietnam, in collaboration with Care International Vietnam and the Research Centre for Initiatives in Community Development, held a workshop on August 26 to launch the “Reaching the Furthest Behind in Quang Tri and Hoa Binh Provinces” programme.

Trần Hữu Minh, head of the committee’s office, said that 7,488 traffic accidents occurred in the period, injuring 4,957 people, year-on-year decreases of 2.47 per cent and 7.24 per cent, respectively.

This pilot model has been introduced after many localities across the country carried out similar programmes since early August, following a spike in fires.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has asked domestic airlines to increase flights during the four-day National Day holiday (September 1-4) to better meet passengers’ travelling demand.

More than 100 Hung Yen outstanding Catholics shared their experiences and good practices when taking part in patriotic emulation movements in their neighbourhoods from 2017 – 2022 during a recent conference in the province of the same name.

Six people from the southern province of An Giang have been awarded Certificates of Merit for rescuing 40 Vietnamese nationals escaping from forced labour at a casino in Cambodia last week.

The workshop, one among a series of the events to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the two countries’ diplomatic relations, aimed to review the activities to bring Vietnamese workers to the RoK over the past 30 years

Trees fell in Hải Phòng and Quảng Ninh. Flooding was also recorded in multiple northern cities and provinces.

The Vietnamese Embassy in the Republic of Korea (RoK), in collaboration with the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, held a workshop in Seoul on August 25, seeking measures to improve the efficiency in supporting the country’s labourers in the RoK.

The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long is taking measures to promote the potentials of ethnic minority areas to develop them comprehensively and sustainably.

Bui Quang Huy, born in 1977, an alternative member of the Party Central Committee and Standing Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCM CYU) Central Committee, has been elected as the First Secretary of the HCMYU Central Committee for the 11th tenure (2017-2022) on August 25.