Up to 10 leaders of communes and a forest management board in the central province of Nghe An face dismissal and punishment for their involvement in destroying local forests.

For the first time ever in their history, the Vietnamese karate team secured a gold medal at the Karate 1-Premier League. 

The Ministry of Construction is working with software maker Autodesk to promote the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM).

State-owned banks are finding it more difficult to increase charter capital, especially when they still have to pay dividends instead of keeping the money for this purpose.

 Longan is planted in many provinces across the country but Hung Yen is renowned as “the capital” of the tropical fruit with more than 3,000 hectares of longan being harvested in the province.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade on Friday held a conference in Ha Noi to discuss experiences of coping with trade defence investigations initiated by Australia.

Viet Nam is likely to reach US$70 billion of bilateral trade with South Korea by 2020, an official said at a seminar on export promotion to South Korea held on Friday in HCM City.

The Hanoi Buffaloes lost in dramatic fashion to the Saigon Heat 72-71 in the Viet Nam Basketball Association (VBA) League on September 28 in Hanoi.

Spiker Tran Thi Thanh Thuy of Viet Nam’s VTV Bình Điền Long An will play for Attack Line Club of Chinese Taipei next month.

Viet Nam national football team’s acting head coach Mai Duc Chung selected 24 players to prepare for the match against Cambodia in Group C of the Asian Cup 2019’s qualifying round at My Dinh National Stadium on October 10.

Techfest 2017, a technology conference, will be held by the Ministry of Science and Technology on November 14 in Hanoi with the participation of various regional partners. 

 South Korean Park Hang Seo will be the Viet Nam national football team’s new head coach, the Viet Nam Football Federation (VFF) announced yesterday.

 Customs department officials in the port city of Hai Phong said they were examining eight containers of giang huong, a rare timber, imported from Africa early this month.

 Despite a raft of applications for nine lecturer vacancies announced in July, HCM City University of Transport has been unable to fill any of the positions.

 The National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs held its seventh plenary session yesterday in Hanoi to discuss health insurance, tobacco control funds and national targets for gender equality.

 Three more top officials of the PetroVietnam Construction Co JSC (PVC) will be investigated for “property embezzlement” under Article 278 of the Penal Code, police said on Friday.

 Vietnam has suggested the establishment of a network of APEC women entrepreneurs during a dialogue that was part of the 2017 APEC Women and the Economy Forum in Hue city, Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

 Vietnam’s “Gold” Athletes at AIMAG 2017

 The 2017 APEC Women and the Economy Forum (WEF) issued on September 29 a statement which looks to enhance women’s economic inclusion and empowerment in a changing world.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission decided to give a strong warning to Huynh Duc Tho, Vice Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee and Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee at its 18th session in Hanoi on September 29.