Việt Nam News

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.

Registration for the first AIoT and Smart Cities Competition for start-ups in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) is open, the competition organisers announced in HCM City on Tuesday.

About 45 trees measuring between 40 and 120cm in diameter were illegally cut down

Last December, the company asked the province for permission to exploit sand at the mine with estimated production of 4.5 million cu.m yearly but it had not completed procedures

The investigation agency determined the transnational organ trafficking ring has been operating since May 2017 and provided about 100 people with kidneys

Farmers in Ninh Thuận Province are growing more productive crops during the dry season thanks to financial support from the provincial authority.

Giồng Riềng District in Kiên Giang Province is expanding a breeding model for cá hô, or the giant barb, that offers farmers high incomes. 

The Department of Husbandry and Veterinary in the central province of Hà Tĩnh on Tuesday announced that prolonged hot weather was part of the cause of the mass deaths of snails reported in the locality.

Twenty-six sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers and expert volunteers who passed away in Laos during wartime were buried with full honours in the central province of Quảng Trị.

The Yên Bái Province Department of Veterinary and Văn Chấn District authorities on Tuesday culled 200 pigs infected with African swine fever.

Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu Province Border Guard early this week seized two ships carrying diesel oil of unknown origin, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

The Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Centre on Wednesday declared that it had rescued 16 fishermen from on two ships that suffered mechanical problems.