Việt Nam News

President Trần Đại Quang on Friday met students participating in the third national festival of outstanding leaders of Hồ Chí Minh Young Pioneer Organisation’s chapters held in Hà Nội. 

Up to 1,157 ha of forest in the Central Highlands Province of Lâm Đồng was lost in the last 10 years after companies rented forest land to carry out projects, the province’s agriculture department announced early this week.

The cost of a ticket for the Cát Linh – Hà Đông elevated metro line will be subsidised.

Great efforts have been made to mobilise potential from Việt Kiều (Overseas Vietnamese) communities around the world, but few results have been achieved, according to experts speaking at a the meeting with representatives of Overseas Vietnamese communities in HCM City on Thursday (9 August).

The northern mountainous province of Hà Giang is urgently repairing several roads that have been severely damaged by landslides due to many days of heavy rain.

Nguyễn Văn Thiện, who lives in Bình Tân, HCM City’s most populated district, has no choice but to do his daily exercise on the street due to a lack of a large park.

Chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung has approved the establishment of a centre for disease control based on the restructuring of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in Hà Nội

HCM City police on Tuesday began criminal proceedings against and detained Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn, head of the management board of Carina Plaza, for his alleged violations in fire safety regulations, which led to the March blaze. 

Wetlands play a major role in preserving biodiversity and fighting climate change in Việt Nam, but the country is yet to establish firm strategies on how to preserve them.  

Fifty-three Vietnamese and foreign students took part in a 10-day Social Entrepreneurship for Economic Development (SEED) programme that ended yesterday (August 10) at the Banking University of HCM City.

The expansion plan for the HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất does not clearly define the airport’s civil, defense and security functions, and does not include plans for using the areas of land under management of the Defense Ministry. according to Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng.

 Hà Nội Police on Thursday announced that they arrested a group of six loggers for illegally chopping down public sưa (dalbergia tonkinensis) trees.

Some 10,000 illegally traded mooncakes were seized by the Hà Nội Market Watch Unit at a store selling agriculture products in Hoài Đức District on Wednesday.

The annual National Young Informatics Contest for students is being held at Lê Quý Đôn High School in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province from August 9-10.

The Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health has asked rabies vaccine suppliers and importers to ensure stockpiles are built up to meet increasing demand.

An endangered green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) has been released to the sea after being captured and kept at a house in the central city, a source from the city’s sub-department of Aquatic Resource Protection said yesterday.

Doctors from the provincial Quảng Nam General Hospital successfully removed a number of pieces of metal from the bronchi of a patient through endoscopy surgery on August 9.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to conduct a comprehensive inspection on the import of scrap materials, as the volume of second-hand products imported into Việt Nam has rocketed in recent times, raising concerns about how the scrap industry affects the environment.