Việt Nam News

Investment in improving and maintaining the inland waterway transport infrastructure network is a strategic priority recommended by the World Bank to better connect inland areas to seaports to facilitate export activities.

Việt Nam has once again demanded China respect its sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) and Trường Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes in response to China’s live-fire drills and construction plans in Hoàng Sa.

The HCM City Department of Health on Thursday instructed the top public obstetrics and paediatrics hospitals to expand the training they provide doctors at lower-level health facilities including private hospitals.

Việt Nam’s qualification framework has helped establish relations between Vietnamese proficiency levels and other national qualification frameworks through the ASEAN qualification framework.

Siemens Vietnam has equipped with its mordern traffic control technology in Phạm Hùng-Mễ Trì intersection in Hà Nội.

The number of cases of measles and hand-foot-and mouth disease has decreased in Hà Nội, but the capital reported two more dengue fever and whooping cough cases over the past week, according to a report from the Department of Health.

Tolls would start being collected at the recently completed Cù Mông Tunnel from April 1, according to Đèo Cả Investment Stock Company, the project’s investor.

The ultraviolet (UV) radiation index in HCM City will remain at the high-risk level of 8-12 until the end of this week, according to Weather Online, a UK-based meteorological service firm.

Coffee trees in Việt Nam are ageing and innovative technical solutions are needed to help farmers successfully replant them, a seminar, "Making use of plant protection products through drip irrigation system", heard in Đắc Lắc Province on Wednesday.

An inspection team on Thursday led by Phạm Khánh Phong Lan, the head of HCM City’s Food Safety Management Board, visited a safe-food market pilot model at Phú Lâm Market in District 6.

At Noir, guests dine in the dark, while at Blanc, they use sing language printed on their menus to place their orders with servers.

HCM City Paediatrics Hospital No1’s neurology and infectious diseases department has admitted children with HIV whose mothers did not have HIV tests during their pregnancy.

Touching down in Melbourne, Australia to begin a term of overseas study, Trần Thanh Vân was nervous. Her fears evaporated when she was welcomed by a Vietnamese student from an airport pickup service that she had booked in Việt Nam.

Land use and management at three large State-owned corporations and groups will be inspected this year, Lê Vũ Tuấn Anh, chief inspector of Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said in a meeting in Hà Nội today.

Police in Quảng Trị Province are investigating the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl.

 A woman in the central province of Đắk Nông has been fined VNĐ10 million (US$430) for posting fake news about a swine fever outbreak in the area.

The Việt Nam Institute for Urban and Rural Planning under Construction Ministry has introduced three options for the relocation of headquarters of ministries and Government agencies out of Hà Nội’s inner districts by 2030, with the cost ranging from VNĐ 12 trillion (US$514.6 million) to VNĐ 17 trillion ($729 million).

Kon Tum provincial police are searching for four men who escaped from a detention centre through its ventilation system.