The ATR 42-500 aircraft, operated by Indonesia Air Transport (IAT), lost contact with air traffic control at around 1:30 pm on January 17 while flying over the border area between Maros and Pangkep regencies.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan sent a message of sympathy to her Philippine counterpart Sara Duterte on October 28 over the aftermath of Typhoon Trami, which has caused significant losses of life and property in the country's northwestern region.
President of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium Éliane Tillieux hosted a reception for Vietnamese Ambassador to Belgium Nguyen Van Thao and representatives from the Collectif Vietnam Dioxine Association and the Belgium-Vietnam Friendship Association (BVFA) in Brussels on November 7.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang is home to more than 11,800 Agent Orange/dioxin victims, most of them live in poverty, according to the provincial association of AO/dioxin victims.
The rescue mission of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security discovered and coordinated with international forces to rescue a victim trapped in the rubble caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey on February 11, the first day of their rescue operation in Adiyaman city.
The Vietnam Maritime Research and Rescue Coordination Centre (Vietnam MRCC) said on December 29 that it had rescued a 33-year-old Chinese sailor of a foreign cargo ship, who fell seriously ill while the ship was about 21 nautical miles off Nha Trang city in the south central province of Khanh Hoa.
Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 7 sent a message of condolences to his Russia counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over a plane crash in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula a day earlier, killing all 28 people on board.
The Chiba District Court said on March 6 that it will begin the trial under the lay judge system on June 4 for a man indicted for murdering a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl last year.
Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries and it plays an important role in development of APEC economies. However, tourism activities have been seriously affected by climate change
Nậm Pồ is the most difficult border district of the northwestern province of Dien Bien. Over the years, human trafficking has been serious in the district.
There has been no report on any Vietnamese citizen being the victim of a fire in Grenfell Tower in west London on June 14 (Vietnam time), according to the Vietnamese Embassy in the UK.
Prosecutors of Japan’s Chiba prefecture on May 26 decided to prosecute Yasumasa Shibuya, a suspect in the March killing of Le Thi Nhat Linh, a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl.
Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan led a delegation to Hương Khê và Vũ Quang districts - flood ‘epicentre’ in the central coastal province of Ha Tinh.
An ASEAN conference on the application of laws, policies and practices to the identification, management and treatment of victims of trafficking was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 28.
Damage caused by the fire at the Pakse Dao Hong market, a Vietnamese trade centre in the Lao province of Champasak on early May 17, amounted to nearly eight million USD.
Hundreds of local people have offered incense at the Son My relic site in Tinh Khe district, in the central province of Quang Ngai to pray for victims of a bloody massacre by US soldiers 48 years ago.
