Hundreds of children and adolescences with disabilities from 18 cities and provinces gathered in Hue city in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from April 1-2 for a sports festival held on the occasion of the World Autism Awareness Day (April 2) and the Vietnam Day of Persons with Disabilities (April 18). The sports festival draws 350 children...

Regions across Vietnam are forecast to be blanketed in a heat wave, with some places to face extreme heat, on April 3. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) According to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF), temperatures in the northwestern region hover around 32-34 degrees Celsius. In specific places, there will be heavy rains and thunderstorms in the late afternoon...

Vietnam GameVerse 2023, the first of its kind for game lovers, kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on April 1. At the Vietnam Game Forum. (Photo: VNA) The two-day event aims at creating an environment for game producers and distributors to introduce games to the market, and opening up opportunities to connect domestic and foreign game enterprises and...

A ceremony to launch a TV programme “Chao Tieng Viet” (Hello Vietnamese language) and a contest to seek ambassadors of Vietnamese language aboard was held in Hanoi on March 31 by the Vietnam Education Publishing House, Foreign Affairs Ministry’s State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and Vietnam Television (VTV). TV programme “Chao Tieng Viet” (Hello Vietnamese language) has been...

The remains of 19,357 Vietnamese martyrs have been found, repatriated and reburied in the 2013-2022 period, heard a conference in Hanoi on March 31. Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Vo Minh Luong speaks at the conference. (Photo: VNA) The conference was held to review a coordination programme between the national steering committee on search, repatriation and reburial...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has sent a letter offering greetings to Khmer ethnic people on the occasion of their traditional Chol Chnam Thmay festival 2023. A Khmer pagoda decorated to celebrate the Chol Chnam Thmay festival (Source: baochinhphu.vn) Highlighting the special importance of the New Year festival Chol Chnam Thmay, PM Chinh attributed Vietnam’s significant achievements last year...

Mobile service providers will block incoming calls for about 1.8 million subscribers with personal information failing to match the national population database beginning on April 1, the Ministry of Information and Communications’ Department of Telecommunications has announced. Illustrative image (Photo: VNPT) According to the department, as of March 30, the personal information of more than 1.99 million mobile...

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) held a seminar in the northern city of Hai Phong on March 30-31 to share experience in applying digital platforms and data to promote public services in digital environment. At the event (Photo: VNA) The event saw the participation of many international experts from the WB, Microsoft, USAID, Health Insurance Review and Assessment...

In response to a spate of sophisticated scams targeting parents and students, the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has called on schools to increase their vigilance and strengthen their coordination with parents. Parents wait for students outside the school gate of Nam Giang town's Primary School in Nam Truc district in northern Nam Dinh province.(Photo: VNA) The...

Over the years, with the role and responsibility of a prestigious person in the community, Mr. Trieu Van Lan, born in 1955, Khuoi Hop village, Thien Thuat commune, Binh Gia district has always been an exemplary model, taking the lead in propagating and mobilizing people to well implement the Party's guidelines, the State's policies and laws, thereby making positive...