Việt Nam News

Vietnam News Agency's anti-fake news programme has won the Gold Prize in the Best Project for News Literacy category within the framework of WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Asia Conference 2020.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, on behalf of the Government, has sent his deepest condolences to the families and relatives of officers and soldiers, who were buried by a landslide, on their way to Rào Trăng 3 Hydropower Plant on a rescue mission in Thừa Thiên Huế Province on Tuesday.

The medical supplies were handed over by Vietnamese Ambassador Lý Quốc Tuấn at Yangon International Airport on Thursday.

A charity race for the UpRace community raised more than VNĐ3 billion (US$129,104) for Newborns Vietnam, GreenViet, Vietseeds, and Operation Smile.

Teachers and students should have access to information technology (IT) to take full advantage of humanity’s knowledge, Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ said on Thursday.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam demanded serious compliance to the rules laid down of the management of people entering Việt Nam so as to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.

In 10 years, among nearly 1.4 million divorces, more than 1 million stemmed from domestic violence.

The Đồng Tháp Province People’s Committee on Wednesday (October 14) held a ceremony to celebrate the province’s first advanced rice farming project that uses modern techniques in all production stages and uses irrigation water efficiently.

More than 326,000 packets of Whisper sanitary pads, worth some US$280,000, have been given to ensure menstrual hygiene for 16,000 disadvantaged adolescent girls in the provinces of Quảng Trị, Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi.

Two imported cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday evening raising the total number of patients in Việt Nam to 1,124, said the Ministry of Health.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged HCM City to devise a long-term plan to turn the city into a smart city over the next five years and an international financial hub in Southeast Asia in the future.

HCM City is piloting a new rubbish collection system in its rivers and canals that it says is more efficient.

A rising number of greenhouses in Đà Lạt City and other surrounding areas is causing a headache for authorities due to the negative impacts they have on the climate and landscape of the famous tourist resort city.

Thirteen bodies found near a landslide-hit hydropower plant in central Viet Nam are believed to be soldiers who had attempted to rescue workers trapped in the plant.

A large-scale online betting ring had been smashed by police in the central city after a five-month investigation, major general and director of the city’s Public Security Department Vũ Văn Viên said, adding that the total value of the betting ring was worth VNĐ10 trillion (US$435 million).