Việt Nam News

Việt Nam as a member of the United Nations (UN) and a signatory to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) supports the UN in embracing a people-centred approach to development.

Many teaching colleges have announced their minimum entrance scores and prospective teachers need just a record low of nine out of 30 to enter these teacher training institutions.

There are many positive instances of administrative reforms where procedures and time taken to get certificates and documents have been reduced considerably, but the best of administrative reforms will fall short if civil servants do not behave with the clear understanding they are there to serve the public.

Apartment residents should not suffer from troubles as a consequence of investors’ violations

Two hundred years after the discovery of vaccine by the English physician Edward Jenner, immunisation can be credited with saving approximately 9 million lives a year worldwide.

Earlier this month, the Environment Minister said “we can’t dump waste into the sea.”

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.