Vietnam Railway (VNR) aims to accelerate its growth to a rate of 8 per cent in 2019 after suffering a depression from 2015 to 2017.

HCM City authorities are worried about encroachment of pavements and roads during Tết (the Lunar New Year) in three weeks’ time.

Rubbish piled up on the streets and near apartment buildings in Hà Nội’s inner districts over the weekend.

As many as 4,000 university students in HCM City are offering housecleaning services to raise funds for a charity programme called Nhà Sạch Đón Tết (Cleaning House to Welcome Tết), organised by the South Africa Honorary Consulate in HCM City.

Universities need to train nearly 15,000 navigating officers and other shipping personnel by 2020 to address a shortage of human resources in the maritime industry, according to Dr Nguyễn Đức Ca of the Việt Nam National Institute of Educational Sciences.

Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday is approaching. Workers in a 100-year-old incense stick village in HCM City are working hard to produce a huge quantity of incense sticks.  

Hòa Bình People’s Court yesterday opened a trial into seven people implicated in a serious medical incident that killed eight patients at Hòa Bình Province General Hospital on May 29, 2017.

Many farmers in the southern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu are breeding Pacific oysters since they have a high survival rate and steady demand in the market.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has called for increased management of food, especially imported food products, as the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday approaches.