Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a new bridge to replace the downgraded Sông Hóa floating bridge connecting Hải Phòng City with Thái Bình Province.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) is planning to check operations at 11 build-operate-transfer (BOT) toll booths across the country.

Hundreds of ethnic minority households have been living without ID cards in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông for the last 20 years, missing out on countless basic legal, social and economic rights and opportunities.

The Investigation Police Agency under the Ministry of Public Security has proposed the Supreme People’s Procuracy prosecute three people on charges of abusing their powers to manipulate students’ test results.

Vietnamese companies making eco-friendly straws have received many orders from other countries that have reduced the use of plastic straws or even banned their production.

As the water supply and drainage sector gears towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there is an urgent demand for the training of highly skilled engineers and system operators who are capable of adapting to constantly changing technology, according to Việt Nam Water Supply and Sewerage Association (VWSA).

Urban agriculture could be successful in big cities such as HCM City, but farmers face a shortage of available land because of many incompleted projects that have been in the planning stages for years.

New outbreaks of African swine fever have been found in the northern provinces of Quảng Ninh, Ninh Bình and Nam Định, raising the number of affected localities to 13

HCM City Party Committee Secretary Nguyễn Thiện Nhân has asked all districts to develop housing policies for migrants based on specific characteristics of each locality.

The Hà Nội People’s Court on Monday suspended a trial involving 15 people who were charged with the falsification of stock trading documents, stock price manipulation and fraudulent asset transfers.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAA) said it is not considering granting licences for the use of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in the country after the series was involved two deadly crashes within five months that left no survivors.

An Earth Hour campaign was launched in Hà Nội on Sunday, sending the message “saving energy, protecting earth”.

The number of traffic accidents, as well as related deaths and injuries, in the central province of Quảng Bình decreased thanks to drastic measures undertaken by provincial police since the beginning of the year, according to local authorities.

The west bank of the Hồng (Red) River in Hà Nội’s Tây Hồ District is famous for its traditional flower villages – Tứ Liên, Nhật Tân, Quảng An and Phú Thượng.

The Ministry of Health has instructed ward and commune health stations in HCM City to double the number of days each month to four on which they vaccinate children to increase immunisation coverage, including against measles.

Preferential rates will remain unchanged at 5 per cent for social-housing in 2019 according to a decision made by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

A volunteer nurse in the northern province of Bắc Ninh has devoted 30 years of her life to care for leprosy patients, earning the affection and respect from those with the ‘cursed disease’ who were shunned by society.

The central region of Việt Nam usually bears the brunt of tropical storms that lash the country each year.