Việt Nam News

A month-long campaign to inspect road users nationwide started on May 15, and many drivers have been rushing to buy compulsory motorbike insurance solely to avoid being fined rather than taking out cover for potential future accidents.

The French prosecutor's office said on Wednesday that 26 people had been arrested in France and Belgium in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese citizens found in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex, near the UK’s London capital last October.

The 43-year-old pilot, who was named by the Scottish Daily Mail as Stephen Cameron, was connected to the Buddha Bar coronavirus cluster in HCM City's District 2.

More than 9,100 unexploded ordnance (UXO) survivors and their families in central Quảng Bình and south-central Bình Định provinces on Tuesday received packages of food, masks and hand sanitisers from international organisations.

A team of surgeons from private Đà Nẵng-Hoàn Mỹ Hospital have successful operated on a three-year-old with congenital heart disease – the second surgery after the first emergency operation in 2018. She was released from the hospital three days after the operation on Thursday.

Nearly 340 Vietnamese citizens have been repatriated from the Republic of Korea (RoK) and quarantined upon arrival.

Police in central province of Thanh Hóa, in co-ordination with HCM City police have arrested a member of a loan shark ring in HCM City after nearly two years of being wanted.

Ba Voi Temple, in Đông Anh District, Hà Nội City, one of the city's ancient relics, was in danger of collapse due to serious subsidence impacted by a local river.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has issued an official document to request 20 provinces and cities to take drastic and synchronous measures to prevent and control African swine fever (ASF).

Local authorities discovered a 70m-long crack in the road surface of Mỹ Thạnh Ward, Long Xuyên City, the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang. The relevant agency has also promptly moved 14 households to safety.

Six more COVID-19 patients recovered and were released from treatment area of the National Tropical Diseases Hospital on Wednesday morning, bringing the country’s total cases being given the all-clear to 278.

Local authorities have discovered two illegal stone-mining sites in Bờ Ngoong Commune, Chư Sê District, the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Gia Lai, a leader of the communal People's Committee said on Wednesday morning.

Hà Nội's Department of Transport recently proposed to the capital People’s Committee to build 270 new bus shelters and upgrade 330 old shelters in the city using the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.

HCM City will need more than 400 new classrooms at primary schools to make it possible for all first graders to study a full day as required by the new training programme for the 2020-2021 academic year. 

The HCM City Department of Transport’s Management Centre of Waterway System will take over the administration of 11 inland waterway ports and wharves within a month.

This year, the Chairmanship of ASEAN has been taken up by Việt Nam, which is its third time since the country joined ASEAN 25 years ago. The country also has a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council during 2020-21 which is also expected to help the country further raise ASEAN’s profile within the international community.

Việt Nam reported about 700,000 cases of acute malnutrition each year, of which about 230,000 were severe and required medical treatment,