Việt Nam News

Typhoon Barijat, with wind speeds of up to 75km per hour, was heading for the East Sea on Tuesday morning.

The northern mountainous province of Điện Biên has been trying to relocate residents from landslide and flood zones, but is facing a shortage of capital and available land.

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved aid from Dutch NGO Oxfam Novib Foundation for an ongoing project to safeguard and strengthen the rights of private garbage collectors, Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Sài Gòn) newspaper has reported.

The waste pond breakage that discharged over 45,000cu.m of mud and untreated chemical-filled wastewater in Bảo Thắng District of northern mountainous Lào Cai Province last week will severely affect eco-system of surrounding areas. The recovery period will take time and be challenging, said Dr Trần Thế Loãn, former deputy head of Environmental Management Department of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The city’s People’s Committee has directed city police and border guards to strengthen management, inspection and handling of illegal sand mining on rivers and canals in the city.

Having failed to enter public high school, Võ Hoàng Khoa from HCM City’s outlying district of Củ Chi applied to enroll at the district’s Centre for Continuing Education.

The Government has approved the new decree on raising fines for food safety violations, which would reach VNĐ 200 million (US$5,840) or seven times higher than the value of goods.

Wild vegetables, herbs and leaves from trees planted on the banks of the Sài Gòn and Vàm Cỏ rivers in Tây Ninh Province’s Trảng Bàng District are known by their taste, smell and use in bánh tráng phơi sương (dew-soaked rice paper), boiled meat dishes, and fish sauce.

The Southern Expressway Projects Management Unit (SEPMU) has urged Đồng Nai Province to speed up site clearance to ensure the construction progress of the Bến Lức-Long Thành Expressway which runs through Long An and Đồng Nai provinces and HCM City.

One person was killed and four others seriously injured after a boiler exploded on Monday morning at a rice paper producer on Nhơn Hòa 1 Street, the Mekong Delta province of Long An’s Tân An City.

The Plant Protection Department plans to soon submit to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to remove another three toxic active ingredients of Fipronil, Chlorpyrifos and Glyphosate used in current weed killers.

Deputy Foreign Minister Bùi Thanh Sơn has reiterated Việt Nam’s consistent policy of respecting and guaranteeing the right to freedom of religion and belief for all citizens and ensuring equality among religions.

The Automobile Association Việt Nam (AAV) was officially launched today in Hà Nội by the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIP).

Auditor General of the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) Hồ Đức Phớc has called for stronger international cooperation in environmental auditing, as it is a new area relating to many nations.

The Huế City Forest Management Unit in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế on Sunday received a rare pig-tailed macaque from the Huế Pet Relief Society.

The city of Hà Nội has just submitted to the Government a plan to manage electric bicycles, reported online newspaper baotintuc.vn.

Illegal coach and bus services are a big concern for the country, despite the authority’s best efforts to put the brakes on those flouting the law.

Eleven men onboard a fishing vessel were rescued on Sunday morning in the coastal central province of Quảng Nam’s Tam Giang Commune.