Việt Nam News

The deaths of eight innocent patients in an extremely tragic medical incident in Hòa Bình Province on May 29 blew a severe hit to the eroding public trust in the national health system. Justice must be served, and fast.

Jay Vontobel, who is responsible for Business Development at Vietnam Holding, an asset manager in Việt Nam, shares his opinions about the launch of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) energy strategy this week.

Covering more than 70 per cent of our earth’s surface and home to 700,000 to two million species, the ocean is the lifeblood of our planet. Besides bringing a sense of serenity through the gentle -- albeit sometimes roaring -- rhythm of its waves, the deep blue employs millions of workers, feeds billions of people and generates trillions of dollars of the world’s economy.
 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Thursday wrapped up his long-awaited trip to the United States with an hour-long talk face-to-face with President Donald Trump, almost half a year after their first contact via a phone call.

Việt Nam has 20 thermal power plants now and plans to have more than double that by 2050.

Red tape is not usually a matter of life or death, in the literal sense.  And it usually attracts the ire of those affected for the needless inconvenience it seems to cause.  Sometimes, the ire is justified, and at other times, not.

Just before the four-day-long vacation last weekend, Hà Nội People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung issued a direction to stop the super priority of the bus rapid transit (BRT) in the city by piloting to let the ordinary buses to also run in the BRT-dedicated lanes.

Unclaimed violating motorbikes sold for scrap: Saving or wasting?

Assaulting other people is cruel and unacceptable, particularly when it comes to doctors who are trying to save people’s lives.

A young girl recently shared a sadden story about the death of her father on Facebook. The 48-year-old man died of drinking methanol-tainted alcohol, the tragedy that the Hanoian said she never thought of even though she said she was aware of such type of accidents now and then from the media.

I can’t bear the fact either.

The boom of private health care service is never ever blooming as now. But also never ever so many violations are found.

A 13-year-old girl in Cà Mau Province and her family reported to local police that she was abused by a neighbour eight times and petitioned that the perpetrator be taken to court. The answer they got from the police last November was a decision not to investigate further because “there was not enough evidence”.

A much acclaimed drive to clear pavements of encroachments will not succeed in the long-term without a public culture of obeying traffic laws

Taking a deep breath and calming down before responding to someone or something is good advice, and it has become ubiquitous advice of late. But several deep breaths later, one feels like screaming “Not Again”, after the latest deadly train accident that has left three dead, several injured and maybe many more scarred for life.

In what can be described as an overzealous move, authorities in the capital city have seriously drafted a Code of Conduct to “guide and correct” people’s behaviour in public places.

Expressions of anguish and outrage came in thick and fast as two young teachers of the Sen Vàng Kindergarten in Hà Nội, both in their early 20s, were recorded using slippers to slap and beat children, and scolding them rudely and cruelly.

After 30 years of the Đổi mới (Renewal) reform, Việt Nam has recorded significant achievements in socio-economic development, lifting  nearly 30 million people  out of poverty. However, increasing income and wealth inequality is threatening the progress made in decades.

Here in Việt Nam, a TPP member long hyped as its largest beneficiary, the agreement is no longer an issue of major concern. The focus is on how trade liberalization will move in the coming months and years, with or without the US, and what the new directions are for smaller TPP members, especially export-driven economies like Việt Nam.