The People’s Court of HCM City on September 16 opened a first-instance trial against Nguyen Thanh Tai, former Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, and a number of other defendants, on charges of “violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness”.

More than eight months after a serious incident causing public disorder in Dong Tam commune in Hanoi’s outskirt district of My Duc, the situation in the commune has returned to normal and local residents are joining in efforts to build new-style rural area, looking towards a bright future.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved the National Strategy on Ending AIDS by 2030.

A total of 2.4 million jobs have been lost in Vietnam in the first two quarters this year, the biggest reduction for the period in the past decade, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Le Van Thanh.

Macca Nutrition Vietnam JSC will provide 95,000 boxes of milk worth 1 billion VND (43,000 USD) for more than 11,800 disadvantaged children in 15 provinces across the country.

The Khmer community in Soc Trang province, along with Khmer people in the southern region, are celebrating their traditional Sene Dolta festival from September 16 to 18.

President Director of Indonesia’s Antara News Agency Meidyatama Suryodiningrat has said he is very confident that the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) will continue to be at the forefront of providing correct information not only for the Vietnamese, but for the people of ASEAN as a whole.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to turn Can Gio District into an ecological urban area as part of efforts to urbanise it and improve the quality of life for locals.

Twenty-seven hotels will be used as paid quarantine facilities for people required to be quarantined after arriving in HCM City, along with other existing quarantine facilities, according to the city Department of Health.

Close to 380 Vietnamese citizens from the Republic of Korea were flown home on September 15 on a flight of Bamboo Airlines.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy on September 14 issued an indictment to prosecute former Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang and his accomplices for their involvement in a violation case ralated to the land plot at 2-4-6 Hai Ba Trung Street in HCM City.

Thirty five years have passed since Khamphan Suvannakha attended a special class organised by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

On September 15, 1945, the Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, along with a list of the members of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, was made known to the world by “Viet Nam Thong tan xa”, and this was also the founding moment of the news service now called “Thong tan xa Viet Nam” (Vietnam News Agency, or VNA).

Many regions across the country are expected to see heavy rains from September 13 to 23, with downpours forecast mainly during the night and early morning, the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre said.