Việt Nam News

The quality of Viet Nam’s workforce and the role of trade unions' roles in protecting workers must be improved to meet the demands of the 4.0 industry era, experts said during a conference on work quality in foreign-direct invested companies in HCM City on Thurday.

Hà Nội is continuously dealing with overcrowding classrooms in the academic year of 2019-2020, which is expected to be on the rise with the number of students reaching up to 70 per class this year.

Nguyễn Lan Anh (not her real name) and her husband had to make a hard choice during her pregnancy: giving birth to the baby or not.

The State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) proposed a reduction of VND193 billion (US$8.2 million) to the investment cost of Bạch Đằng Bridge, a BOT project in northern Quảng Ninh Province, as well as a cut to the project’s toll collection time, which is currently set at 20 years, to 17 years and eight months.

Public awareness campaigns and education will be used to promote use of child car seats and seat belt for children under a new initiative.

At many coffee shops in HCM City, signs with no smoking are installed in many corners, but many people still smoke there.

The Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng’s investments in tourism infrastructure are paying off with a rising number of local and foreign travellers coming to the province.

HCM City authorities were taking emergency measures in response to African swine fever after outbreaks were reported in the key farming province of Đồng Nai, Vietnam News Agency reported on Friday.

Forest rangers in Gia Lai Province announced on Thursday they had arrested a trader for buying 3.5 tonnes of pine tree bark.

Việt Nam had not yet fully exploited its intellectual property potential for its socio-economic development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Vietnamese security forces are fighting day and night to stop the flow of drugs into the country, said panellists during an online conference host by the Vietnam Government Portal on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has asked authorities nationwide to delay an increase in the prices of a number of healthcare services that was scheduled for May to ease the financial strain on families following recent hikes in electricity and petrol prices.

The University of Science under the Vietnam National University-HCM City has set up the first greenhouse gas monitoring station in the buffer zone of the Láng Sen Wetland Reserve in the Mekong Delta province of Long An.

Seafood processing enterprises in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu are facing a serious shortage of skilled labourers, affecting their production and exports.

Authorities plan to accelerate the smart city development process and make the city  become civilised and modern by 2020.

In 1881, when the French occupied Sài Gòn during the first Indochina War, they built the first railway in Việt Nam. It was also one of the first in the region and the most modern in Southeast Asia.

The Directorate of Roads in Việt Nam (DRVN) has proposed heavier punishments for drink drivers after a string of accidents resulted in the death of several victims in April and May.

Experts, scientists and architects agreed that a construction boom along the Hàn River over past decade had impacted on the river flow, erosion and floods,  and could result in environmental tragedy in the future.