Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc attended the opening of an exhibition on 10-year achievements in new-style rural area building in the northern province of Nam Định on Friday.

The construction of Long Thành International Airport must be started by early 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said during a visit to its site on Wednesday (16 October).

More than 600 participants, including 200 foreign experts, will attend the third Smart City Summit in Đà Nẵng City on October 24.

A safe produce fair to promote transparency in food production will be held at An Cư Apartment in District 2 on October 20 by the Association of Food Transparency and organic food producer and distributor Organica.

Hà Nội and HCM City are piloting programmes to reduce smoking.

A group of women in the southern province of Đồng Nai took it upon themselves to set up a task force 10 years ago to tackle rising robberies, motorbike racing, gambling and alcoholism.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh has encouraged farmers to breed more goats that meet biosafety standards and use bio-products to treat goat waste. 

More than 150 foreign and Vietnamese startups are exhibiting their products and technologies at HCM City Innovation, Startup and Entrepreneurship Week (WHISE 2019) ending on October 19.

The People’s Court of Sơn La Province on Friday morning asked police to investigate further before the trial would continue.  

The 9th European Day of Languages will take place on Saturday in Hà Nội.

Some households in Hà Nội's Thanh Xuân District have clean water again, municipal authorities announced on Thursday evening, hours after police confirmed an investigation into the ongoing water crisis that has affected some 700,000 people.

Nghệ An Province was the hardest hit with three deaths and five injured people.

Provinces and cities should identify key industries to prioritise for investment and development in their socio-economic development strategy for 2021-30, experts told a conference yesterday (October 17).

Lack of capital and appropriate training were hindering the developing of start-up innovations among students at vocational training facilities, heard a workshop held in Hà Nội yesterday.

Better cooperation is needed between domestic and international agencies, organisations and enterprises in the development of advanced radiation technologies, Hoàng Anh Tuấn, director of the Việt Nam Atomic Energy Agency said at a conference on atomic energy held in HCM City yesterday (October 17).

The Sài Gòn Railway Transport Joint Stock Company will begin selling train tickets for the upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday beginning on October 20, according to the company’s director Đỗ Quang Văn.

Whitmore, or melioidosis, is an infectious disease that has gone largely ignored in Việt Nam.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed the Department of Transport to co-ordinate with districts to identify more streets to be used for parking cars.