Việt Nam News

Two top officials of the Trà Vinh City were arrested on Wednesday as probe into a land tax evasion ring that caused an estimated loss of nearly VNĐ120 billion (US$5,200) to the Government expanded.

Hà Nội People’s Court on Tuesday handed sentences to nine officials of Bích Hòa Commune for violations in land management.

The Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against Trần Khắc Hùng, 47, chairman of the Board of Directors and head of the Training Institute at Đông Đô University on charges of forgery.

Two separated traffic accidents killed three persons and injured at least 36 others early Wednesday morning.

Associate Doctor Phạm Mạnh Hùng, deputy director general of the Việt Nam National Heart Institute, talks to the newspaper Khoa học & Đời sống (Science and Life) on how people can enjoy a long, healthy life.

Doctors at the Pediatrics Hospital No.2 have successfully performed a liver transplant on a baby with congenital biliary atresia.

The prices of about 1,900 different services at public hospitals will increase from Tuesday (August 20), according to the Ministry of Health.

Doctors at Từ Dũ Hospital in HCM City suspected a foetus had a serious but rare congenital heart defect called transposition of the great arteries, which can be detected between 22 to 24 weeks.

Transport companies in HCM City and Hà Nội plan to increase the number of trains and buses to cope with the rush expected during the long Independence Day weekend next month.

The An Giang People’s Committee on Monday declared the urgent erosion situation along the Hậu River passing Vĩnh Trường Commune, An Phú District.

Construction work on the Quảng Ninh Geriatrics Hospital, the country's first of its kind at the provincial level, started on Monday in Hạ Long City.

Tây Hồ District’s Department of Education and Training will stop the operation of Maple Bear Westlake Point International Kindergarten regarding an incident in which a student at the school was locked in a cupboard for not obeying teachers’ instructions, said an official.

Five years after the Government issued Decree 67, which aimed at supporting fishermen to build bigger and more modern steel-hulled boats able to resist bad weather and venture further into the sea, the decree has hardly been a panacea for the country’s fishermen.

The United States will fund US$50 million to support people with disabilities in seven provinces sprayed with dioxin during the war, a conference heard on Monday.

Trần Quang Hoài, general director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s General Department of Disaster Prevention and Control and deputy head of the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper about the importance of active prevention in dealing with increasingly extreme weather.

The new management board of the Chinese Taiwan-invested footwear manufacturer KaiYang Vietnam Limited Company spoke to thousands of employees on Monday morning, saying the firm would restart its work on Tuesday after its doors were shut last week following the abrupt departure of the company's director last week.

Provinces in the Central Highlands face the risk of reservoirs bursting since hundreds of them are damaged or degraded.

With the new school year set to start on September 5 most schools around the country are fully prepared to welcome students with though a few others are worried about a shortage of classrooms.