Việt Nam News

Thousands of students across the country have been taking part in volunteer campaigns aimed at promoting the important role of youth in contributing to the country’s cultural, social and economic development.
 

The exam cheating scandal in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang has officially become a criminal case as the province’s police yesterday started legal proceedings to investigate the wrongdoings.

GameChangers, a team of five young programmers, has won the first KMS Hackathon championship with its intelligent virtual chat and job consultancy solution.

Many provinces and cities plan to visit and present gifts to families who are beneficiaries of state policies on the occasion of War Invalids’ and Martyrs’ Day on July 27.

The HCM Communist Youth Union’s Vừ A Dính Scholarship Fund, in cooperation with Vinacapital Group, has launched the second phase of Mở đường đến tương lai (Opening Paths to The Future) by providing scholarships to 50 ethnic minority girls from 36 provinces nationwide.

About 1,000 marijuana trees were recently destroyed in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

Two died, 15 houses were damaged and hundreds of hectares of rice flooded yesterday due to typhoon Son Tinh in the central provinces of Hà Tĩnh, Nghệ An and Thanh Hóa.

 Fishes raised by farmers along the Đà River in the northern province of Hòa Bình died en masse during the past week, causing great losses.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has critised ministries for failing to build a mechanism for ordering training and scientific research for autonomous universities in the last three years.

Tax payers are claiming they should not have to pay an entry fee for airports and terminals given the fact that airport investors do not have to pay land taxes.

Construction of two underground parking lots in Trống Đồng Centre and Lê Văn Tám Park will start in the fourth quarter of this year, according to the HCM City’s Department of Transport.

Major economic hubs of big cities and provinces nationwide have announced ambitious multi-billion dollar projects to become smart cities, well-equipped to take advantage of opportunities presented by the digital age.

Costs have been cut for 70 healthcare services at hospitals and clinics nationwide following a circular that took effect on Sunday. Patients will now pay anything from 5 to 50 percent less for dozens of services.

Many young people in the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Châu, Phú Thọ and Lào Cai have rushed illegally across the border to China, leaving their parents and children behind in the hopes of finding a well-paid job to improve their lives.

Typhoon Sơn Tinh – the third typhoon to hit the East Sea this year – was forecast to make landfall in provinces from Thái Bình to Quảng Bình last night with wind speeds near its eye reaching 74km per hour.

The Mekong Delta province of Vĩnh Long’s steering committee for social, health and unemployment insurance on Tuesday (July 17) instructed local authorities to promote the benefits of health insurance and reach at least 81 per cent coverage by year-end.

A one-year management training course for around 200 women who run small enterprises has just been completed under a project run by Tình Thương One Member Limited Liability Microfinance Institution and the New York-based Citi Foundation.

Hundreds of residents from Quy Nhơn in the central province of Bình Định have been setting up blockades over the past two days along a section of Highway 1A to prevent dust-billowing lorries from passing through Bùi Thị Xuân Ward .