Việt Nam News

Hiệp Phước Port Urban Area should be developed only when infrastructure facilities in the areas around the port (in HCM City’s District 9) are well developed, heard at last session of HCM City People’s Council recently.

“I find a lot of things to complain about – dirty halls, discarded gum on the handrails and noisy neighbours who sing karaoke without closing their doors,” a resident said.

Preparations are underway for the launch of ferry services between HCM City’s outlying Cần Giờ District and Vũng Tàu.

Heavy rain has submerged hundreds of houses and thousands of hectares of crops in Buôn Đôn and Ea Súp border districts in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk in recent days. 

Water levels of Vĩnh Phước River in central province of Quảng Trị has reached the lowest in 15 years, threatening water supply for 30,000 households in Đông Hà City and neighbouring areas.

The Vietnamese team has reached the top five of the 2019 international math competition in South Africa picking up with two champion cups, four gold medals and five silver medals.

Police in the northern mountain province of Lai Châu have busted 151 drug related cases in the first six months of this year.

Breeding cold-water sturgeon in cages has brought stable incomes for poor farmers in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai, reported Vietnam News Agency.

A group of men neatly wrapped themselves in three layers of clothing in the middle of a summer night in July, quietly chatting. They each had a cup of hot tea.

A knowledge-sharing programme to assist policy makers in Việt Nam to develop new models of care services for the elderly was co-launched by the Japan International Co-operation Agency and the World Bank on Wednesday in Hà Nội.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has suggested using funds from the 2019 Fund for the Poor to replace makeshift residences with brick houses by the end of the year, especially for poor people who have made contributions to the nation.

With increasing digital adoption, the finance industry is having great difficulty finding human resources for new job positions, experts have said.

Many Vietnamese and foreign experts shared the latest perspectives on and novel approaches to improving the nutritional status of Asian children at FrieslandCampina Institute Asia Pacific Symposium held in HCM City on Saturday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc launched the national labour productivity movement during a conference held in Hà Nội on Wednesday. 

Cầu Giấy District’s investigative police said yesterday they decided to take legal action following the death of a first grader at an international school in Hà Nội, treating it as an unintentional murder.

The Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has rejected a proposal to adjust the land use rights of part of the Ciputra urban area in Bắc Từ Liêm District. The area was set to be used for a commercial area, courtyards, gardens and internal roads but the proposed change would have allowed the construction of a complex of high-rise offices, hotels and residences.

Three children aged five to seven were found dead on Tuesday afternoon in a local river in the central province of Quảng Bình.

The Hanoi Railway Transport JSC (HARACO) and e-wallet and online payment gateway NganLuong.vn signed an agreement on August 6 to offer online booking and payment services for railway tickets.