Việt Nam News

People who have consumed alcohol should not be allowed to ride motorcycles, a conference held to discuss the influence of alcohol on driving has suggested.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is reaching its peak season in HCM City, with incidence doubling last month from August, according to the city Preventive Medicine Centre.

The Government has issued nearly 100 decrees to punish civil offences, and many overlap, making it difficult for authorities to enforce them, a conference heard in HCM City last week.

Tighter regulations are being planned on school buses, after one child died and another needed hospital treatment when they were left on board for hours unnoticed.

The development of technologies such as 4G, 5G, internet of things and artificial intelligence has rapidly changed the healthcare sector’s landscape globally, including in Việt Nam, with more organisations adopting digitisation, according to experts.

Holidays for Tết 2020 will start from Thursday, January 23, 2020 (or the 29th day of the last lunar month of the Year of the Pig) to the end of Wednesday, January 29, 2020 (or the fifth day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Rat).

The Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông has set targets for the next five years for its "new-style rural area" programme, for which it has spent more than VNĐ91 trillion (US$3.9 billion) since 2010, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

The HCM City People's Committee has approved new figures to pay compensation and calculate new land prices in urban infrastructure upgrade project areas.

A joint investigation between police and officials has been carried out into the destruction of a pine forest in Lâm Hà District.

A suspected animal smuggler has fled police after a high-speed chase in the central province of Quảng Trị.

A fertiliser company is teaming up with Sky Life, a Japanese corporation to build a microbiological factory in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

Nearly 40 young ASEAN leaders, including three from Việt Nam, gathered in Singapore last week to exchange ideas as well as discuss issues and opportunities to collaborate for sustainable partnerships in the region.

Monsoon winds are forecasted to hit the northern region on Saturday, lowering temperatures of northern localities by three to ten degrees Celsius, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

The HCM City Traffic Safety Management Board has instructed relevant district agencies to find and punish encroachment of roads and pavements.

Farmers' incomes in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have risen as a result of membership in agricultural co-operatives, but the effectiveness of the groups is still limited, experts have said. 

It was a Sunday morning at Hương Lan Pagoda in Đông Sơn Commune, about 25km to the southwest of Hà Nội. The students at the special weekend class sat in a small converted classroom in the pagoda. It was usually used as a lobby but the head monk decided it would be a a comfortable place for children to study.

The 6.2-km Hải Vân Road Tunnel 2 – the longest road tunnel in Southeast Asia, connecting the central province of Thừa Thiên Huế and Đà Nẵng City, is very near completion after the final section was excavated.

HCM City’s People’s Court sentenced seven men and one woman to death for heroin and methamphetamime trafficking on Monday.