Việt Nam News

Most canteens in hospitals cannot meet people’s demand as patients and their families often have to purchase food and necessities from street vendors.

Hiring expansion remains robust this year in Việt Nam, though not as high as 2017, speakers said yesterday at a press conference held in HCM City.

Many newly built infrastructure works in HCM City have deteriorated quickly due to frequent tinkering with design and poor quality of work, experts have said.

 Watching cable television and accessing the internet are now basic needs for the majority of households in Việt Nam, but in many apartment buildings in big cities like Hà Nội and HCM City, residents are unable to freely choose their telecom and internet service provider.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng wants countrywide improvements in building plans to respond to incidents and disasters, including search and rescue activities, at a conference in Hà Nội yesterday.

More rice farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre have growing other crops on low-yield rice fields and are breeding aquatic species and animals that offer higher profit.

All 23 hospitals in HCM City’s districts this year will have enough doctors who can take turns providing technical assistance to medical staff at health stations in communes and wards, according to the city’s Department of Health.

Ahead of the War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day – July 27, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc led a Government delegation, offering incense and flowers at the Truông Bồn national historical site in Đô Lương District of the central province of Nghệ An to commemorate the martyrs who died for national independence.

The HCM City People’s Court yesterday convicted US citizen William Anh Nguyễn for disturbing social order and ordered him deported for joining a crowd that caused disorder on June 10 in HCM City.

The investigation bureau of the Hà Giang police yesterday began criminal proceedings against a senior education official accused of manipulating school tests.

Đà Nẵng’s tourism department plans to open representative offices in China and Europe to promote investment, trade and tourism between East Asia and European markets in the coming years.

Public policies and especially enterprise polices are crucial to support gender equality at workplace, experts said at the forum “Promoting Gender Equality in the Digital Age and Integration” held in Hà Nội by the Ministry of Labour-Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) on Wednesday.

Female workers in the garment and textile industry exchanged experiences at a forum to raise people’s awareness about violence against women and girls held in HCM City on Thursday.

Two people were killed and seven others injured after a sleeper bus crashed into a roadside barrier and overturned early Friday morning on a stretch of National Highway No 1A, running through the coastal central provinces of Bình Thuận’s Hàm Thuận Bắc District.

The Hà Nội Department of Transport has rejected a proposal to build a five-kilometre cable system across the Hồng (Red) River to serve public transport needs.

An eight-month baby girl was reportedly killed two hours after being bitten by a 40-kg Tibetan Mastiff dog on Thursday afternoon in a family in Hà Nội’s Đội Cấn Street.

Google Maps has announced a new motorbike mode in ASEAN countries, including Việt Nam this week.

Authorities of Đắk Mil District in the Central Highlands Province of Đắk Nông on Thursday successfully removed and destroyed a MK82 bomb.