Fastening her bucket hat and carefully tucking her khaki chinos into her boots, Nguyen Thi Thuy does a final check before stepping into a bare plot of sandy land.

Colonel Bui Van Lua, deputy director of the General Department of Drug Control under the Viet Nam Border Guards, talks to the Government Portal about the Vietnamese border guards and the people’s will to say no to illicit drugs.

The area under sugarcane in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta has shrunk dramatically during the 2019-20 crop after many farmers switched to other crops following losses in recent years.

The Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve has been recognised by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve with a unique diversity of flora and fauna of the mangrove area. 

A training model that seeks to prevent child labour has been launched recently at Thien An School in HCM City’s Binh Tan District.

Education New Zealand (ENZ) recently announced the list of 20 New Zealand Schools Scholarships (NZSS) recipients - the New Zealand Government’s first scholarships offered exclusively to Vietnamese secondary school students.

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

The Japanese Embassy in Vietnam has revoked and suspended the rights to apply for visas on behalf of Vietnamese tour groups for eight firms.

Two people have been killed, and three others injured after falling into a hole caused by the road subsidence in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa.

The dates for the all-Vietnamese AFC Cup Zonal final have been set.

The national women’s football team will start training for the Southeast Asian Championship in Hanoi today.

Vietnam appreciates its relationship with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) – one of the country’s leading providers of capital, technical assistance and consultation, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said.

With Khe Sanh victory on July 9, 1968, Huong Hoa district in Quang Tri province became the first district in the south to be liberated.

Hundreds of laborers and their apparel firms on July 3 gathered at the HCMC-based representative office of Central Group to oppose the group’s suspended purchases of Vietnamese textiles and garments.

Tropical storm Mun has ravaged the northern city of Haiphong, leaving trees uprooted.

Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City are seeing more patients with dengue fever one month before the peak season for the disease.

Typhoon Mun, the second arising in the East Sea so far this year, made landfall in localities from Hai Phong to Nam Dinh in early July 4, with a wind speed of 62-88 km/h.

Clean production gets fruity in export

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.