Việt Nam News

Rice farmers in Đồng Tháp Province, the largest lotus cultivation area in the Mekong Delta, have reaped high profits by planting lotus in their rice fields during the flood season.

Researchers and entrepreneurs were matched in the ‘Việt Nam Challenge for Our Environment’ launched Friday by the US Embassy in Hà Nội to devise innovative solutions for addressing environmental issues.

Bình Dương Province has decided to increase the number of students per class and reduce the number of day-boarder classes due to a shortage of schools.

Hà Nội’s Cát Linh – Hà Đông elevated railway is set to launch after a testing phase lasting between three to six months.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed a directive strengthening the management of activities related to drug supply and distribution.

 A lot of schools, healthcare centres and offices in several resettlement residential areas in the central province of Hà Tĩnh have been left unused for years since their completion, creating a huge waste of public budget resources.

Three former customs officers in Đà Nẵng City were sentenced to jail on Thursday for irresponsibility that allowed smuggled timber to slip through the border.

The Ministry of Public Security will account for public security and order issues surrounding debt collection activities, according to a draft revised decree from the finance ministry.

Over 3,000 people in Việt Nam fell victim to human trafficking between 2012 and 2017, with most cases involving cross-border trafficking.

Renewable energy projects are facing challenges in licensing, financing options, and agreements with local project owners, experts said at a seminar held in HCM City on August 23.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a meeting on Thursday on housing assistance for people affected by flash floods and landslides nationwide, stressing that helping the victims to rebuild their homes is an urgent task.

The authorities of HCM City and the leaders of the Ministry of Planning and Investment and Ministry of Science and Technology met on Thursday with 100 young talented Vietnamese to discuss the favourable conditions the city has created for experts and scientists to work on smart-city projects.

Bến Tre Province’s People's Committee vice chairman Nguyễn Hữu Lập has asked agencies to intensify inspections of illegal sand mining activities, focusing on hotspots in Chợ Lách, Châu Thành and Giồng Trôm districts.

Bình Phước Province and several Central Highlands provinces are stepping up preventive measures as the number of malaria cases has risen since the beginning of the year, according to local centres for malariology-parasitology-entomology.

Promoting rooftop solar power is one of solutions to address the imminent shortage of power, experts told a workshop in HCM City on Thursday.

The Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ targets an agriculture growth rate of 3.5 per cent each year in the 2018-20 period and 2.5 per cent in the 2021-30 period. 

Hà Nội's Police Department of Criminal Investigation of Social Order has issued a decision to prosecute a criminal case regarding illegal organ trading.

The Law Division of Hà Nội People’s Council has asked districts to force residents living in old apartment buildings to remove iron cages installed on balconies to create emergency exits.