Việt Nam News

All ports along the Sài Gòn River will be relocated by the end of the year to reduce pressure on transport in HCM City, according to a report from the Transport Ministry submitted to the Government.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc held meetings with leaders of the South Pacific countries of Nauru and Marshall as well as South America's Guyana on the sidelines of the sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in central Đà Nẵng yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc asked the World Bank (WB) to continue its financial and technical support for Việt Nam during his meeting with the WB’s Vice President for East Asia and Pacific Victoria Kwakwa on the sidelines of the sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in central Đà Nẵng yesterday.

Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City have carried out kidney removal from living donors using robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

The HCM City People’s Procuracy on June 27 proposed a four- to five-year prison sentence for Đặng Thanh Bình, former deputy governor of the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV), who has been charged with “lacking responsibility and causing serious consequences”.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society in collaboration with the National Humanitarian Portal 1400 has launched an SMS campaign to mobilise funds to support Agent Orange victims in Việt Nam.

HCM City is calling for investment in a new inland container depot (ICD) project with total costs of VNĐ5.8 trillion (US$ 250 million) in Long Bình Ward in District 9.

An inauguration ceremony in the city was held yesterday (June 26) to open Romania’s Honorary Consulate Office at No 214 Võ Thị Sáu Street in HCM City’s District 3.

Việt Nam has not recorded any mutations of the swine flu (A/H1N1) virus, according to Dr Nguyễn Thanh Trường from HCM City’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

Nông Thôn Việt magazine’s Rural Bridges Programme yesterday inaugurated 11 bridges it built in Thạnh Hưng District, Long An Province.

Four people died after being electrocuted while installing telecommunications pylons in the central province of Nghệ An.

Mass fish deaths along rivers in the southernmost province of Cà Mau have recurred in Đầm Dơi District, the local People’s Committee reported yesterday.

The Hà Nội Transport Service Company (Transerco) plans to issue tickets for the double-decker tour bus service at cheaper price to attract more visitors this summer.

Vehicles has been allowed to travel between Lào Cai City and Sa Pa District through National Highway 4D after landslides previously blocked traffic on the highway.

Việt Nam and other countries located near Southeast Asia's notorious 'Golden Triangle' are facing numerous challenges in the fight against drug trafficking.

Many construction works in HCM City designed to check soil erosion are running well behind schedule due to land acquisition and resettlement delays.

Raising tobacco taxes could help reduce smoking and the harm it causes to women and children, experts said at a workshop held in Hà Nội on Monday.

Việt Nam has strongly committed to reducing plastic waste country-wide and in the long term, working to reduce it all together.