Việt Nam News

In 2013, they set up VeXeRe JSC (roughly translated as cheap coach tickets), a tech start-up that operates an online bus ticketing platform.

The HCM City People’s Court on December 31 sentenced former Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyễn Hữu Tín to seven years in prison for violating regulations on management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness under Article 219 of the Penal Code 2015.

It may be Sunday morning, but you’ll find Nguyễn Việt Hùng enjoying a coffee, and of course, keep up-to-date with work as he fastidiously checks his smart phone.

Lý Đình Quân, director of the Songhan Incubator, one of the first private start-up incubators in Việt Nam, talks with reporter Chi Lan about the role of the private sector to support a new generation of start-ups in Viet Nam.

All residents in HCM City will have electronic medical records connected to the database of the city's health facilities by 2025, according to the HCM City People’s Committee.

Buôn Ma Thuột City in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Lắk is projected to become the central municipality of the Tây Nguyên region under the Conclusion 67-KL/TW of the Politburo on Buôn Ma Thuột development to 2030. 

In July 2017, a pilot programme by the public security ministry allowed vehicle owners in Hà Nội, HCM City, Đà Nẵng, Hải Phòng and Cần Thơ to buy registration plates via auctions.

The HCM City University Medical Centre has successfully transferred many advanced medical techniques in cardiovascular intervention, traumatology and orthopaedics to Sóc Trăng Province General Hospital over the past two years.

Việt Nam National University-Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) had more than 2,500 scientific articles published in domestic and international journals as of October, according to a report released yesterday (December 26) by the school.

Police and border guards in the northern province of Điện Biên have caught two people illegally trading and transporting drugs in the border area.

A cold spell is expected to hit the northern region at the start of the new year, bringing rain and lowering temperatures.

A man killed his wife before committing suicide last night in Quảng Ninh Province’s Móng Cái City.

Four out of six projects to build modern industrial slaughterhouses in HCM City have been delayed due to sluggish administrative procedures and lack of approval for building permits.

A campaign has been launched by Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình over the weekend to reduce road traffic accidents in 2020.

Lemongrass farmers in Tiền Giang Province’s Tân Phú Đông District, the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s largest producer of the herb, are earning growing incomes now since prices are increasing.

The month before Tết (Lunar New Year), which will falls on January 25, are the busiest for residents of Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta craft villages since demand for traditional specialties spike.

The rapid growth of the swift-breeding industry across the country could lead to negative effects if there is no long-term development plan, according to Hạ Thúy Hạnh, deputy director of the National Agriculture Extension.

There will be more than 320,000 job vacancies in HCM City through next year, including for 135,000 new positions, according to the city Human Resources Forecast and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Centre.