Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) has suggested lifting a controversial requirement for mobile phone users to register their photos in a stunning policy turnaround just six months after the regulation was put into force.

A bridge over the Hồng (Red) River connecting Việt Trì in the northern province of Phú Thọ with Hà Nội’s Bà Vì District will be opened on Sunday, after three years of construction.

The Ministry of Health on Monday afternoon asked local authorities and hospitals nationwide to strengthen preventive measures to control the spread of hand-foot-mouth disease.

Responding to population aging should be a priority issue and require timely measures to prepare for more older people in the coming years.

Bình Phước Province’s agricultural officials are helping cashew farmers learn new cultivation techniques because of losses incurred in recent years due to pests and inclement weather.

HCM City’s economy needs to pick up pace to achieve this year’s growth targets, a meeting held yesterday to review socio-economic development in the first nine months heard.

 Traffic Police Department under Ministry of Public Security has considered proposing a demerit point system to tighten disciplines over driving offences.

Some seniors in Việt Nam are proving age is just a number and continue to work well into their twilight years.

The Mekong delta province of Trà Vinh will make every effort to achieve its economic growth target of 12 per cent this year, the Secretary of its Party committee, Trần Trí Dũng, has said.

Hà Nội police on Monday announced that it has launched an official investigation into an alleged parking racket that might involve tens of billions đồng at the city’s biggest wholesale market of Long Biên.

The headquarter buildings of Hà Nội Party committees, people’s councils and people’s committees at commune/ward and district levels must follow design standards in terms of area and height, said the municipal People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung.

 Three people were killed when a bomb left over from the war exploded in Cà Mau Province today, police said.

Large amounts of untreated wastewater leaked out during the garbage disposal process at the landfill in Lộc Hà District, Hà Tĩnh province, allegedly causing significant fish deaths in Can Lộc District, the provincial authorities said.

Việt Nam detected more 12,200 hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) patients nationwide last month, according to latest statistics by the Ministry of Health.

Customs officers at Nội Bài International Airport have seized nearly a tonne of elephant tusks, ivory products and pangolin scales hidden inside cargo packages.

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated Palu, Donggala and Mamuju in Central Sulawesi on Friday evening has claimed 832 lives, at the time of writing, and injured many others. The earthquake destroyed infrastructure and homes, leaving survivors without shelter.

A dramatic scene unfolded last week in HCM City when three young workers fell from the Giga Mall construction site on Phạm Văn Đồng Boulevard (Hiệp Bình Chánh Ward, Thủ Đức District) and were seriously injured, raising concerns about safety at high-rise construction sites.

Hà Nội is working on gradually digitising the household registration books of over 7.6 million residents, a move to simplify administrative procedures related to residence management.