Some 22.5 million Vietnamese pupils and students across the country on Monday are attending a ceremony marking the beginning of a new school year.
Vietnamese people are now observing "ghost month" which falls in the seventh lunar month annually and is, as tradition holds, believed to be the time when ghosts and spirits depart the lower realms and rise to visit the living.
As many as 418,200 people who hold college, university and post-graduate degrees in Vietnam were unemployed in the second quarter of 2016, accounting for over 38.4 percent of the country's total unemployment rate.
The 42-year-old marksman Hoang Xuan Vinh, who has on Sunday won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Vietnam, has two career secrets.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has just approved a proposal on conditional release of prisoners ahead of time, following which some 20,000 prisoners will enjoy early release by 2018.
The Vietnamese prime minister on Wednesday afternoon submitted to the parliament a list of proposed cabinet members with a change in head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
Vietnamese police have returned three Chinese economic fugitives arrested in Vietnam to a Chinese police working team in capital Hanoi and southern Ho Chi Minh city respectively on Saturday and Sunday.
"Alas! Damn Euro! Because of you, the home is shattered and its member gone," a Vietnamese woman burst into loud wails hours after Portugal bagged home the UEFA Euro 2016 trophy.
The Vietnamese foreign ministry has sent a diplomatic note denouncing shooting at Vietnamese fishing boats and urged Thailand to probe the incident.
Vietnam's agricultural, fishery and forestry sector is estimated to post a year-on-year growth of 5.4 percent in exports in the first half of 2016, according to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
A total of 1,552 fires and explosions broke out across Vietnam in the first five months of this year, killing 34 people and injuring 153 others, while causing property losses of some 723 billion Vietnamese dong (32.1 million U.S. dollars), the country's Fire Prevention and Fight Department said Monday.
Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday adopted a joint statement on advancing bilateral comprehensive partnership.
President of the United States Barack Obama on Monday announced the United States is lifting a decades-long arms embargo on Vietnam.
The Republic of Korea (RoK) will receive some 3,500 Vietnamese workers in 2016 after three years of limiting the reception of Vietnamese labors due to high rates of illegal workers.
Four people, including three foreigners, who turned up after disappearing for more than a week in the South China Sea, were found by chance aboard a trespassing Vietnamese trawler, Malaysia's coast guard has said.
A 26-year-old woman from Vietnam's southern Tay Ninh province and her 39-year-old Malaysian lover were arrested by the provincial police on Wednesday for having cheated Vietnamese girls to Malaysia to work as prostitutes.
"Japan is willing to support if Vietnam has concrete request in adaptation to climate change, including drought and saline intrusion," said Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday.
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