Society

Gio Xanh (Green Wind), the first community choir in Vietnam, will hold its annual concert with the theme Viet Nam Thuong Men (Loving Vietnam) this summer in the ancient royal capital city of Hue and Hanoi.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Saturday issued an Official Dispatch demanding the mobilisation of local resources to ensure logistics and enhance support for the construction of the Circuit-3 500kV power transmission line.

The Action Month for Children 2024 was launched at a ceremony held in Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien - Hue on June 1.

More than 2,800 boarding houses in Hanoi's Cau Giay District don't have proper emergency exit systems.

Ecotree Group, a sustainable forestry company focusing on carbon removal and biodiversity preservation, will team up with Germany's NGUYEN GmbH Chau Au to implement a carbon dioxide reduction project in Vietnam under an agreement signed on May 31.

Police in Hanoi have just fined a woman VND4 million (USD160) who was found burning votive paper at a staircase in an apartment building in Ba Dinh District.

A festival for peace, the first of its kind, is scheduled to take place on July 6 at the Hien Luong-Ben Hai national special historical relic site in the central province of Quang Tri.

The driver and two teachers at the Hong Nhung 2 Preschool in Thai Binh Province have just been prosecuted following the death of a five-year-old boy who was left on a school bus on Wednesday.

In observance of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has launched a media campaign aimed at preventing the use of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products to safeguard children and public health.

An Indian court has urged the government to declare a national emergency over the country's ongoing heatwave, saying that hundreds of people had died during weeks of extreme weather.

Despite safety warnings, many tourists have continued to visit a cliff on Sam Son Beach in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa.

Yellow-spined bamboo locusts have damaged up to 500 hectares of forest and crops in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang.

The State Bank of Vietnam has demanded credit institutions deliver a system-wide credit growth target of 5-6 per cent by the end of the second quarter this year, and reduce lending rates by 1-2 per cent.

A tunnel on the North-South railway route has reopened after being suspended for ten days due to landslides.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son on May 31 met with Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Han Duck-soo as part of the former’s official visit to the East Asian country.

Despite motorcycle sales continuing to decline in the first quarter of the year, Vietnam remains the second largest motorcycle market in all of Southeast Asia and the fourth worldwide, according to newswire Motorcycles Data.

Large-scale erosion caused severe damage to ten houses along the Binh Thuy River in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho on Friday morning.

A nationwide charity programme to support children with disabilities in 10 highland border provinces has been launched in Hanoi on Friday.