Society

A family in Hanoi’s Old Quarter has maintained paper mask production for the Mid-Autumn Festival for more than four decades.

The Vietnamese-funded Thong Nhat secondary school was inaugurated on August 31 in Khammouane and handed over to the association of Vietnamese in the Lao central province.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has revised the amount of CO2 transferred in 2018-2019 in the north central region.

A Colorful Guizhou Airlines flight carrying 154 passengers aboard from Guiyang city in China touched down at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on August 31 to mark the opening of the new air route.

The Vietnamese government has announced a temporary 50% reduction in registration fees for domestically produced and assembled cars on August 30.

A widely ridiculed Japanese government idea to woo Tokyo women into marrying men in rural areas by offering cash payouts and train tickets to matchmaking events has been scrapped, officials said Friday.

The HCM City Department of Transport has just announced a traffic ban on 20 streets in the city centre for the National Day fireworks performance on September 2.

Straw burning has remained prevalent in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, causing air pollution.

Many households in the central province of Ha Tinh have given up on salt production due to the hard work and low incomes.

Dantri/Dtinews Newspaper has co-operated with the Hanoi Blind Association to offer health insurance cards for students born to blind people in the area for the coming new school year.

Wildlife trafficking is now a "serious offence" under Singapore's organised crime law, the city-state's interior ministry has said, with those prosecuted under the code subject to sentences of up to 20 years behind bars.

Two children drowned while swimming at the Dao River in the northern province of Nam Dinh's Nam Truc District on Friday.

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vu Chien Thang affirmed Vietnam's consistent policy of respecting and protecting the right to freedom of belief and religion of all people, while receiving visiting US Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Allison Peters

The southern central province of Phu Yen has decided to establish a geopark which covers thousands of square kilometres.

Police operating in the central province of Ha Tinh said on August 30 that they have co-operated alongside their Laotian counterparts to rescue 13 Vietnamese citizens who were victims of human trafficking in the Golden Triangle.

Australia’s tourism newswire Escape recently revealed the 13 best places to visit in September, including the ancient town of Hoi An in Quang Nam province.

Google is considering building a large data centre in Vietnam, in what would be the first such investment made by a major United States technology company in Vietnam, according to Reuters.

Police in the northern province of Hai Duong's Chi Linh City have just arrested the general director of the Holland Milk Company, Nguyen Trung Vuong, for producing and selling counterfeit products.

The second phase of Binh Hung Wastewater Treatment Plant in HCM City was inaugurated this morning, August 30.