The lives of millions of people in Vietnam have improved greatly because of financial help from overseas, a conference in Hanoi heard on Wednesday.

Experts and members of the publishing industry talks to Tuổi trẻ newspaper about the rampant increase of counterfeit books on the market and how to address the issue effectively.

The regulation that requires parents in Hanoi to provide documentation stating their children’s vaccination records for preschool entry from 2019-20 school year have caused a commotion.

The 14th National Assembly’s 7th meeting session ended last month with the last day reserved for discussing the draft amended Labour Code, which included a proposal to increase the retirement age that received a lot of public attention.

The Ha Noi Department of Culture and Sports on Monday fined a company for hanging an advertisement sign with unclear content.

Binh Thuan Police on Monday afternoon released a nationwide wanted notice for two people who had escaped from detention on Sunday.

A total of 280,084 people have received unemployment allowance so far this year, and more than 13,600 people were supported with vocational training.

Doctors at Paediatrics Hospital 1 in HCM City have performed open heart surgery on a prematurely born baby weighing only 1,600 grammes.

For Tran Ngoc Dung, the traditional fish sauce of VIetnam has not received the respect it deserves.

A large amount of a precious and endangered flora gene has been found inside a forest in central Quang Nam Province.

Loopholes in regulations designed to deter the illegal operation of contract passenger buses have been one of the main causes of difficulties for legal passenger buses on fixed routes in recent years, transport enterprises have said.

A project to build 2,174 bridges to replace temporary bridges in 50 provinces and cities has progressed more quickly than expected, said Nguyen Van Huyen, director of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam.

After several years of using eco-friendly compressed natural gas (CNG) to fuel some of its fleet, HCM City’s public bus system is now on the verge of a fuel shortage as the only supplier plans to reduce supply, Tuổi Trẻ newspaper has reported.

Many workers on Hanoi’s major infrastructure projects had gone unpaid for years although the projects had been completed, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

Vietnam has made progress in its plan to increase health insurance coverage with some 90 per cent of the country’s population participating in the scheme by the end of May, said Pham Luong Son, deputy director of Vietnam Social Security.

A range of new policies are coming into effect this month, including wage increases, paternity leave for male workers and regulations relating to retirement age of the people’s public security force.

Le Thanh Nam, deputy director of the Ha Noi Department of Natural Resources and Environment, talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper about his agency's effort to eliminate illegal sand and pebble depots along river banks.

Authorities in HCM City have completed a number of projects earlier than scheduled in an effort to prepare for the rainy season.

Thousands of Vietnamese women who were previously married to Korean men or plan to marry a Korean have received support to adapt to their new life for the last three years.

Lu A Say once was called a crazy man after spending months in the forest searching the seeds of a type of confer tree known as pơ mu (fokienia hodginsii) in Vietnamese with the hope of cultivating them on a large scale.