A lack of awareness has left many parents of children with autism blaming themselves for their children's developmental disabilities, hindering efforts to help children better integrate into society.

Nearly 2,000 tonnes of equipment and goods of Việt Nam’s first military engineering unit participating in the United Nations peacekeeping operations at the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) will be transported from Hải Phòng port in the northern city of Hải Phòng to the mission from April 4, according to the Ministry of National Defence’s Việt Nam Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

Unseasonal downpours have been lashing the central provinces since the start of this week, causing two deaths and two more to go missing at sea. 

A gathering was held on April 1 for Khmer ethnic members of the Vietnam - Cambodia Friendship Association in Can Tho and Cambodian students of universities in this Mekong Delta city to mark Chol Chnam Thmay, the traditional New Year festival of Khmer people.

Hà Nội continued to see a decreasing number of new daily COVID-19 infections on Friday. However, the capital city still had the most cases in Việt Nam with 7,734.

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to Việt Nam, via the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX Facility.

The General Department of Việt Nam Customs will participate in the Operation Mekong Dragon IV, a joint regional operation against drug and wildlife trafficking, from April 15 to September 15 this year, the department has announced.

COVID update on April 1

Experts shared opinions in marking out new directions to recover the tourism sector, which has been seriously hurt by the pandemic, at a forum held in the capital on April 1.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have reached an agreement on accelerating the two countries’ cooperation in the fields of mutual interest, during their phone talks held on March 31.

The Republic of Korea (RoK) Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has officially removed Việt Nam from the list of countries subjected to tightened COVID-19 control measures.

The 2021 Kovalevskaya Award will be given to two Vietnamese university professors in recognition of their outstanding research achievements and great contribution to the national development, the award committee has announced.

The challenges of COVID-19 are a test that requires women to join hands in support of women's businesses that dare to prove themselves and show their strengths, according to Elisa Fernandez, UN Women Representative to Việt Nam, at the conference 'Women's innovative entrepreneurship in the new normal' on Wednesday. 

ASK International from Japan, in cooperation with Đông Á University in Đà Nẵng, will publish two books on Japanese language learning for Vietnamese students in 2022 as part of an agreement on education and human resources training signed by the two partners in Japan last year.

Hundreds of activities have been held under a project to help LGBT children and teens access educational, health care and social services, heard in recent meeting held by the Can Tho city Union of Friendship Organisations.

The General Department of Vietnam Customs will participate in the Operation Mekong Dragon IV, a joint regional operation against drug and wildlife trafficking, from April 15 to September 15 this year, the department has announced.

Fifteen centre providing intervention services for children with autism in Vietnam have conducted various communication activities to raise public awareness on the syndrome as part of activities to respond to the World Autism Awareness Day (April 2).

The Hanoi People’s Court has sentenced a woman to 21 months in prison for “abusing the rights to freedom and democracy to violate interests of the State, rights and legitimate interests of organisations and individuals.”

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has recently unveiled a draft decree on extension of the deadline for excise tax payment for domestically-manufactured and assembled cars.

Huỳnh Ngọc Thái Anh's invention, the recyclable trash collector, has won first prize in UNESCO's "Innovative Ideas for a Plastic-Free Ocean" competition.