Việt Nam News

Phạm Xuân Hòe, deputy director of the Banking Strategy Institute (under the State Bank of Việt Nam), speaks to Thời báo Kinh doanh (Business Times) about measures to help people living in remote areas get access to digital financial services.

HCM City has begun construction of new facilities at the city’s Heart Institute on July 24 in an effort to cope with overcrowding.

The People’s Court in HCM City yesterday (July 24) resumed the trial of Phạm Công Danh, former chairman of the Việt Nam Construction Bank’s (VNCB) board of directors and former general director of the Thiên Thanh Group, and other defendants charged with “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management causing severe consequences” at VNCB.

The Japanese coast guard ship Kojima docked at Tiên Sa Port yesterday for a visit to the central city of Đà Nẵng.

The Australian Government yesterday (July 24) kicked off its Gender Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT) programme in northwest Việt Nam to create jobs and improve incomes for local women.

A new programme aimed at empowering women, creating jobs and improving incomes for local women was launched on Tuesday in the northwestern province of Sơn La.

Households at risk from landslides and flash floods in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên are still waiting to be relocated to safe areas.

The death toll in the Sơn Tinh Typhoon has raised to 29, according to National Committee for Search and Rescue, with 10 more still missing as the country is bracing for new heavy downpour on Tuesday.

A HCM City programme to introduce new compressed natural gas (CNG) buses is facing difficulties due to a lack of financial support from the city and poor infrastructure.

The summer-autumn rice harvest in the southern region has been good and prices of the grain are high, according to provincial departments of agriculture and rural development.

Financial development with a focus on financial inclusion for people of all incomes will be the key for stable economic development, Vice Rector of HCM City Open University Nguyễn Minh Hà said at Việt Nam’s Business & Economics Research Conference that ended today (July 24).

War injuries have never been able to stop war veteran Trần Quang Liệu from his dream to become a Math teacher.

The Ministry of Transport has decided to cancel two national highway projects. The projects include upgrade work to the Chợ Mới-Bắc Kạn National Highway and the new National Highway 3 (Hà Nội – Thái Nguyên).

New driving forces for growth will be needed for Việt Nam for the coming years, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said yesterday at a meeting with the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission in Hà Nội.

The Tuy Phong District People’s Court in the southern province of Bình Thuận yesterday sentenced 10 people to from two to three years and a half of imprisonment for causing public disorder in Hòa Minh Commune on June 10 this year.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình has ordered the administration of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bằng to quickly determine the cause of the tragic accident that killed four people and injured 16 others early Sunday morning.

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) has issued a warning of attacks by malicious code, which the organisation believe is targeting banks and the country’s vital infrastructure networks.

Thirteen hundred people were sent to help 108 households of Sìn Hồ District in the northern mountainous province of Lai Châu evacuate to safe places during the last historic flood.