Việt Nam News

The Forest Protection Department of Đồng Nai Province has asked permission from the province’s People Committee to erect more electric fence systems to resolve conflicts among residents and elephants in the area.

The central province would close or remove the polluted cement plant in Bình Đông commune in Bình Sơn district if the plant’s managing board does not take any measure to improve the quality of air and dust emission in the coming time.

The health care system of traditional Vietnamese medicine has been expanded, with 58 out of 63 provinces and cities nationwide having traditional medicine hospitals, participants heard at a workshop yesterday in Hà Nội.

Provinces in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are taking measures to prevent the spread of swine flu A/H1N1 in the region.

The third annual Changing Cancer Care, a global challenge aimed at inspiring non-treatment ideas that may improve cancer care for patients, has begun.

An earthquake, measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, hit the district of Nam Trà My in the central province of Quảng Nam around 7am yesterday morning (July 17), but no damage or casualties were reported.

Police of Hanoi's Hoan Kiem district handed over Chong Hyun Chul, a man wanted by South Korea and Interpol, to South Korea's police for illegally doing business and illegally examining and treating patients in a medical setting.

A tropical low-pressure system has gained strength and become a tropical storm as of Tuesday morning.

Taxis that calculate fares via apps like Grab would be required to place a lightbox with the words “Electronic Taxi” on their car, while contract-based cars that drive for Grab and similar companies would need a lightbox that says “Electronic Contract-based Vehicle” under a proposal by the Ministry of Transport.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp plans to expand the scale of six famous craft villages to serve tourism needs and preserve traditional crafts.

Secretary of HCM City Party Committee Nguyễn Thiện Nhân on July 16 spoke with families who have been affected by the Thủ Thiêm new urban area project, some of whom have refused to move and others who have resettled in Bình Khánh Ward.

Most construction projects in northern Hải Phòng City have are running well above their initial cost estimates, with the cost hikes in some cases reaching thousands of billions of đồng, according to a recent inspection by the Government Inspectorate.

Hà Nội’s Department of Health has officially provided comprehensive information about the delivery of two new-borns to the wrong parents at Ba Vì District’s General Hospital six years ago, a case which has drawn public attention in recent days.

There is a house and workshop in Hà Nội’s Hai Bà Trưng District where disabled people from across the country can come for a better life.

Torrential rains with thunderstorms are predicted to blanket Hà Nội and northern mountainous provinces for the next few days.

The Việt Nam Department of Peace-keeping Operations launched a training course in Hà Nội on Monday for military experts dispatched to the United Nations peace-keeping mission.

Around three million people in Phù Đổng and Trung Mầu villages in Gia Lâm District, Hà Nội will have access to the first “drinkable tap water” in Việt Nam as the factory being built there comes into operation on October 10.

A plane of Jetstar Pacific airline had to land at Cam Ranh International Airport in Khánh Hòa Province after a failure for landing due to bad weather at Đà Lạt City’s Liên Khương airport on July 16.