Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will propose that the Government reduce the eligible age for social welfare benefits from 80 to 75, said Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Đào Ngọc Dung.

Nguyễn Văn Sơn was dubbed the first ‘tree man’ in Việt Nam due to his incurable disease of warts covering both his hands and feet.

Việt Nam’s deeper integration into the global economy requires the country to enhance its capacity to comply with international labour commitments, including the elimination of forced labour and child labour, experts have said.

The Ministry of Transport has urged Đồng Nai Province to speed up site clearance, compensation and resettlement for affected households so that construction on the long-planned Long Thành International Airport can begin next year.

In the quest to obtain the perfect look, many end up in hospital with necrosis and pus-filled wounds.

Two chemical compounds, Momilactone A and Momilactone B (MA and MB), that can prevent diabetes, obesity and gout through their ability to inhibit enzymes relating to the diseases, have been found in white rice grown in the central province of Quảng Trị, scientists have announced.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc praised the efforts of the country's high schools revealing discipline was better, community awareness better and overall, exam security had improved. 

More measures are set to be taken by Hà Nội authorities to improve local population quality.

The HCM City Department of Transport has told contractors to complete procedures and speed up work on four underground parking projects.

Northern Việt Nam remains the region with the highest number of deaths from rabies, accounting for 80 per cent of the country’s mortality, a health official said yesterday.

HCM City’s Department of Tourism has sent an inspection team to work with the inspectors of the city’s Department of Transport to clarify the overcharging of an elderly Japanese tourist by a cyclo driver on August 3. 

Heavy rains and floods triggered by storm Wipha have claimed 10 lives, while 11 others are still missing in northern and northern central provinces over the past few days, according to the latest report from the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Two new outbreaks of the A/H5N6 avian influenza, which is transmittable to humans, has been reported in Xuyên Mộc District, the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, said head of the provincial animal health agency, Nguyễn Lương Trai. 

HCM City Police have launched criminal proceedings against a Vietnamese-American bar owner and 15 others on charges of "illegal possession of narcotics" and concealing their illegal use.

Border guards of northern Lạng Sơn Province has arrested a girl for allegedly trafficking a newborn baby to China, online newspaper news.zing.vn reported.

The People’s Committee of northern Hải Phòng City has called for an investigation into the illegal dumping of 27 barrels of suspected chemical waste into the city's Hòa Bình Canal.

Political Commissar, Rear Admiral Phạm Văn Vững from the Việt Nam People’s Navy talks to Vietnam News Agency on the application of historical lessons obtained 55 years ago from the first victories the navy has made in the Gulf of Tonkin to today’s context of national defence.

The central province is seeking sustainable solutions for the conservation of critically endangered primates living in a primary forest, while creating stable livelihoods for log farmers in Tam Mỹ Tây commune – which is home to 50 endangered grey-shanked douc langurs.