Smuggling has long been a pressing issue in southern provinces that share hundreds of kilometres of border with Cambodia and Thailand.

 A painting and sculpture exhibition on social issues such as child sexual abuse and environmental protection has opened in the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will launch a campaign to make the world cleaner from September 23-30 with the theme waste management for sustainable rural environment.

Delegates to SOM3 and related meetings have applauded Vietnam’s hosting of the meetings and APEC Year 2017, as well as the country’s initiatives. 

 Vietnam will reform rice production to gain sustainable development in the production and export of rice, according to Vietnam’s Rice Market Development Strategy from 2017 to 2020.

UK Ambassador to Vietnam Giles Lever had a working session with Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport on August 29, conveying British businesses’ intention to participate in the expansion of Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

 Despite rosy seafood export growth in the first seven months, Vietnamese enterprises still face a line-up of hurdles in the remaining months of the year, including input material quantity and quality and barriers from import markets.

 Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Quoc Khanh is leading a Vietnamese delegation to the Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) in Australia to secure the effect of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Apart from orchards, the southern province of Vinh Long has attracted a large number of tourists to its traditional pottery village.

 Vietnam may not reach this year’s targeted cashew export value of 3.3 billion USD, due to a shortage of raw materials for cashew export processing.

 A special show, scheduled to take place in Hanoi next month, will see four Vietnamese divas perform alongside singer Tung Duong, who is well-known for his not-for-everyone music.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is stepping up efforts to better regulate an emerging field of medicine that holds significant promise for curing some of the most troubling diseases by using the body’s own cells.

The first deputy foreign minister-level political consultation between Vietnam and El Salvador took place in Hanoi on August 28, aiming to seek measures to foster the partnership between the two countries and their foreign ministries.

President Tran Dai Quang, on August 28, received Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Yang Sung-tae, who is on his first visit to Vietnam.

 Catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Harvey increases the risk of ills ranging from skin rashes to bacterial and viral infections and mosquito-borne disease, U.S. public health officials warned on Monday.

“Film photos and Hanoi” exhibition is taking place at the Sword Lake Cultural Centre in Hanoi from August 26 to September 3, showcasing 100 film photos which feature a very simple Hanoi.

 The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has requested all public educational establishments to refrain from collecting fees other than tuition fees in the 2017-18 school year.

Education and training are a bright spot in the defence relation between Vietnam and India, said Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) Pham Hong Huong.

Vietnam remained at the third place on the medal tally at the end of the 9th day of the ongoing SEA Games 29 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 Cu Da village in Hanoi’s Thanh Oai district is famous for its French-style houses and for being one of the biggest vermicelli producing villages in Vietnam.