(HBO) - Being born and growing up in Hop Thinh Commune, Ky Son District, Lo Van Tien has a special passion of being a criminal policeman since he was a child. When he grew up, he was recruited into the Police Force and was trained as new soldier at the Mobile Police Battalion (Ministry of Public Security). After that, he was assigned to the Criminal Police Department of the provincial police. In 2001, he became Vice Captain, then the Captain of the investigative team of serious cases, which mainly investigated some seriously dangerous cases such as murder and robbery. In 2010, after the foundation of Police Warrant Department, Lo Van Tien was appointed as Vice Head of the Department, directly commanded the warrant team. Since then, his "criminal characteristic” has been revealed; he has become the "antipathy” of wanted crime. There have been a lot of seriously wanted criminals voluntarily confessing themselves to the police so that they could get the grace from the government.

(HBO) - Overcoming the accumulative challenges and difficulties, Hoang Van Thu High School for The Gifted has been recognized as a high quality center of Hoa Binh Education and Training Sector. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the school’s foudation, the reporter coming from Hoa Binh Newspaper had an interview with Dr. Le Thi Hong - the principal of the school about the results and tried determinations in the future.

(HBO) – Trung Thanh Commune in Da Bac District seriously suffered from torrential rains and floods caused by a tropical depression from October 9-12 with heavy losses in both human lives and property. Following the calamity, local authorities and people have focused on overcoming flood consequences and stabilise inhabitants’ living conditions.

(HBO) - "After 10 years of implementing Instruction No. 11, there has been a positive change in the awareness of giving study and talent encouragement, building up a learning society within party committees and local administrations, among the line-up of officials, party members and people. This encouragement activity has been organized with specific programs to carry out. The movements of study and talent encouragement and building up a learning society in our province have been gradually developing widely and deeply. The Associations of study encouragement from province to local ones have been consolidated in time; bring into full play their key roles in mobilizing the contribution of social resources into the development of education and training. The activities of Centers for Continuing Education, Centers for Community Learning are on the right track with high quality, which firstly creates favorable conditions for the local people to participate in the learning association and then become an important educational institution. This makes a contribution towards building up a society study from the local associations”.

The Prime Minister has recently approved a target program on climate change adaptation and green growth for the period of 2016-2020, aiming to tap into the capabilities of the whole country in undertaking measures to adapt to the impacts of climate change, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the safety of life and property.

(HBO) – Upholding the tradition that "Healthy leaves cover torn leaves” and the pioneering and voluntary spirit of young people, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and youth associations at all levels in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh have actively contributed and called for resources to help local people affected by natural disasters soon stabilise their lives. At the same time, local youths have also been mobilised to help agencies, schools and households clean the environment, contributing to preventing post-flood diseases.

The General Association of Vietnamese Cambodians on October 31 launched a campaign to raise funds for flood-hit residents in northern mountainous and north central provinces of the home country.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 30 conveyed a message to mark the 20th year of devastating Typhoon Linda – the worst to strike the Mekong Delta in 100 years, in which he called on people to stay vigilant and play a more active role in response to natural disasters.

As many as 117 outstanding third-year and fourth-year students from six universities in Hanoi, Hue, Da Nang, and Da Lat cities will receive Samsung Korean Scholarships funded by Samsung Electronics Vietnam Co. Ltd.

Education experts from Australia shared their country’s experience in running universities to meet the criteria of world university ranking systems at a workshop in Hanoi on October 26.

(HBO) – ABIC Hanoi, a branch of the Agriculture Bank Insurance joint Stock Corporation, and representatives of the Agribank branches in Hoa Binh province and Tan Lac district have presented 70 million VND (over 3,000 USD) under bancassurance to two families whose members borrowing money at Agribank Tan Lac were killed in a landslide in Khanh hamlet of Phu Cuong commune on early October 12.

(HBO) – Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Cuu has examined study encouragement efforts at the Vu Dinh clan and the Association for Promoting Education of Yen Tri commune in Yen Thuy district.

(HBO) – Legal violations regarding food safety remain complicated with food of ambiguous origin and substandard quality still available on the market, hurting consumers’ health. On the other hand, it is hard for safe produce to compete in terms of prices and consumers find it difficult to distinguish between safe and unsafe products, leading to their distrust in the use of food in general, and agro-forestry-fisheries products in particular.

The Hanoi municipal chapter of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) honoured 10 outstanding young people for their contributions during 2012-2017 at its 15th Congress held in the capital city from October 18-20.

The Singapore Embassy in Hanoi organised a ceremony on October 18 to present an ASEAN Scholarship to 12 Vietnamese high school students aged between 14 and 16.

(HBO) – The Thung Rech area in Tu Son commune of Kim Boi district has seven hamlets, five of which are home to people who moved here to give land to the construction of the Da River reservoir in the 1990s. When they began settling down here, population in the area was scattered. They have built houses and farmed crops, turning this desolate land into fertile and vast sugar cane and maize fields.

(HBO) – As an agriculture-based commune, Toan Son (Da Bac district) has no part-time jobs so local residents has faced difficulties in their livelihoods. As part of efforts to help poor and near-poor households get access to soft loans to develop production, the board for hunger alleviation and poverty reduction has joined hands with the local Bank for Social Policies to mobilise and use the capital effectively. Thanks to the preferential loans, hundreds of ethnic groups are able to develop production and farming to sustainably escape poverty.

A 116-member Vietnamese delegation joined tens of thousands of delegates from around the world to attend the grand opening ceremony of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) in Sochi, Russia, on October 15.

(HBO) – Quach Thi Nhu, a local resident in Dong Bac commune (Kim Boi district, Hoa Binh province) and her husband have set up and smoothly run production and business activities of Hung Nhi Kim Boi One-Member Co., Ltd, helping to creating jobs for hundreds of rural women. That success stems from their persistence and the go-ahead spirit.

The capital city’s transport authority has announced alterations to traffic adjustment in the central area of Hoan Kiem around Dong Kinh-Nghia Thuc Square.

The Prime Minister has approved a project to organise the 19th Asian Physics Olympiad in 2018 (APhO 2018) in Vietnam, which is hoped to help encourage the study and teaching of physics in schools, thus seeking and nurturing talented students in the subject.

(HBO) – As one of the communes facing extreme socio-economic difficulties in Mai Chau district, the northern province of Hoa Binh, Hang Kia is mainly inhabited by the Mong ethnic group. This is also considered one of the key and complex localities in terms of security and order, especially drug crime, of Mai Chau district.

There are more than 10 million elderly people in Vietnam accounting for 11% of its population. Caring for and promoting social security policies for the elderly are priorities in the Action Month for the Elderly from September 25 to October 31.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the investment plan of a project to carry out policies and programs to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, domestic violence and handle the issue of prostitution, using evidence and a human right-based approach.