Hanoi (VNA) – The Health Ministry’s National Programme on Tobacco Affect Prevention on April 25 launched the “National No Tobacco Week” in response to the World No Tobacco Day (May 31).

Hanoi (VNA)- The Vietnam-India Advanced Information Technology Resource Centre will be established in Hanoi by August with the support of the Indian government.

Hanoi (VNA) — The Ministry of Finance has given thumbs-up to raise ceiling prices for airfares on domestic routes, effective from April 27.

Hanoi (VNA) - The Bolondo multinational circus troupe have brought smiles to poor and orphan children in Hanoi with its charitable performances from April 20-25.

Hanoi (VNA) - Cambodian and Thai troops continued with clashes in a border area disputed by the two countries for the fourth consecutive day on April 25.

Kon Tum (VNA) – Vietnam’s Central Highland province of Kon Tum and Laos’ Attapeu province have completed the planting of 33 markers on a border portion running through their localities.

Havana (VNA) – Cuban President Raul Castro has been elected first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) at the Sixth National Congress which closed on April 19.

HCM City (VNA) - Between 30 and 49 percent of the population in provincial towns access the Internet on a daily basis in 30 provinces across the country, a survey found.

Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO) will carry out 200 humanitarian eye surgeries for the poor in Laos’ Bolikhamsay province from April 18-27.

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has to date found no radiation contamination in food imported from Japan , the Ministry of Health’s Food Safety and Hygiene Department said on April 18.