The national women's football team has been welcomed home as heroes after they won the ASEAN Football Championship for the third time in Thailand.

HCM City plans to spend hundreds of billions of dong on building more than 100 reservoirs to store rainwater and control flooding by 2020 under a flood-control programme.

Every Sunday morning, in a coffee shop in District 10, HCM City, nearly 40 doctors and technicians, nurses, and medical students gather together to share specialized knowledge of resuscitation.

It is 12:30pm on Sunday afternoon in mid-August. Le Thi Kim Linh, 45, is waiting in line to get lunch at Cho Ray Hospital’s kitchen which serves free meals for patients’ families, many of whom live outside HCM City.

A leading domestic violence specialist in Vietnam has said there are more and more cases of women being beaten up by their partners – with many victims too scared to complain for fear of bringing shame on their families.

EVFTA to boost intellectual property in Vietnam

Poor children in Bon Sar Village, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, are now able to read and write thanks to Nay Bim, an elderly villager who donated land and funds to build a school.

Vietnam has made big strides in applying atomic energy in treating diseases, especially cancer. Dr Vuong Huu Tan, Chairman of Viet Nam Atomic Energy Association, talks with VietTimes on how the country is using nuclear techniques in medicine.

The HCM City Food Safety Management Board plans to strengthen oversight of companies producing food supplements.

A co-ordinated and sustained global effort “is needed to reinforce the circular economy through action-based projects”, an international forum heard in Bangkok.

The ninth conference on traditional medicine of countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region will open in Hanoi on September 5, according to the Ministry of Health.

The south-eastern province of Binh Dương is considered to be a place with many public housing projects and kindergartens for workers and their children, but they are proving insufficient.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) signed a memorandum of understanding on co-operation in Hanoi on August 29.

Timor Leste always appreciates the support of Vietnam for his country during the war time and in the last 20 years as well, Prime Minister of Timor Leste Taur Matan Ruak told the special envoy of Vietnamese PM Nguyen Manh Hung.

Vietnam’s airlines have announced their plans to cancel or reschedule their flights from and to airports in central Vietnam where tropical storm Podul is expected to make landfall on August 30.

Water shortages over the past three months have devastated residents of drought-plagued localities in central Quang Binh Province.

The 4th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (GEOTEC HANOI) will be held in November in Hanoi.

Transportation, construction and cooking at home are among factors causing pollution both indoors and outdoors in Hanoi.

Teachers at schools in HCM City, especially kindergartens, have co-operated with health officials to clean and disinfect toys and the environment to ensure hygiene when a new academic year begins on September 5.

Over $73.2 mln to develop hi-tech agriculture projects in Binh Phuoc