Việt Nam News

Ministry of Finance (MoF) has asked the Government to stop the electricity subsidy for poor households from 2019 for its negative impacts on the national poverty elimination policies.

The Ministry of Health is inspecting the preventive efforts in place against dengue fever in 16 provinces and cities where the disease is seeing an upward trend.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society’s Central Committee has launched a volunteer quick-reaction team for disaster relief and humanitarian activities in the country.

The Ministry of Transport has announced plans to limit the cargo handled at HCM City’s Cát Lái Port since volumes are exceeding its handling capacity, exerting pressure on the city’s transport infrastructure.

Việt Nam Social Security (VSI) has reported that many hospitals have been found abusing the health insurance fund in the first six months of this year.

The pooling of fields to create large-scale fields and co-operatives for growing clean produce in Đồng Nai Province has benefited farmers and companies.

The Department of Planning and Investment of Đồng Nai Province has created a database of information about enterprises in an attempt to prevent commercial fraud and sale of fake goods.

More than one million hectares of productive Vietnamese forest should receive a new certification by 2030.

A fire occurred yesterday at Quảng Nhật Co Ltd in the Nhị Xuân Industrial Zone in Hóc Môn District, HCM City.

Landslides triggered by heavy downpours in the mountainous province of Lai Châu have killed six people, with another four missing, said local authorities on Friday.

Yokohama, Japan, and the central city’s Đông Á College have inked a comprehensive agreement on a nursing education and employment programme to serve healthcare needs in Japan in 2018-19.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà has assigned Việt Nam Administration to take major responsibility in assisting the minister manage ocean plastic waste

The People’s Court of HCM City has sentenced to death five defendants involved in the illegal trade and transportation of a large amount of drugs at the end of a four-day trial on Thursday.

As many as 271 cases of measles have been reported in Hà Nội since the beginning of this year, compared to just 60 for all of last year.

An accident between four motorcycles and a crane truck happened on Thursday, which caused the death of a six-year-old boy and heavy injuries to other passengers.

 More than 10,000 chickens and ducks on two farms in An Dương District, northern city of Hải Phòng have been infected with the A/H5N6 bird flu virus, vice chairman of the district People’ s Committee Lê Văn Cường confirmed on Thursday.

The HCM City Department of Transport has asked the city to increase subsidies for buses by VNĐ330 billion (US$14 million) each year as some bus drivers are facing a shortage of funds.

Ethnic minority girls from remote mountainous areas in Sơn La Province are pushing themselves for marriage, despite being underage, in the hope of a better life.