Việt Nam News

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.

The substandard reverse osmosis (RO) dialysis water treatment system at Nghệ An Friendship General Hospital has been cited as the cause of patient health problems, the Nghệ An Department of Health announced in a press meeting yesterday.

On its session on 1 August 2019, the City’s People’s Committee has asked the Urban Railway Management Board (MAUR) for the adjustments of investments for the two metro line projects to the HCM City People’s Council.

Typhoon Wipha has finally left Viet Nam, leaving in its wake a trail of death and destruction. But among all the heartache, many heroes have risen.

The Saigon Union of Trading Co-operatives, the HCM City Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology and the Seoul Medical Service Foundation today signed a memorandum of understanding to fund free surgeries for children born with cleft lips and palates.

HCM City’s Police Department said it will launch a three-month campaign to deter foreigners from breaking traffic rules in the city.

A working delegation of the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority will be sent to the southernmost province of Cà Mau to help the locality cope with erosion along the western part of its waters.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) has proposed two solutions to the ongoing dispute about toll collections at the T2 BOT toll booth in the Mekong Delta province of Cần Thơ.

Traffic police imposed penalties on nearly 6,500 drivers with alcohol levels exceeding the permitted level and 74 drivers under the influence of drugs during nationwide traffic inspections last month.