Việt Nam News

Vietnam News Agency photographers captured picture perfect moments on the sidelines of the ongoing second summit between US President Donald Trump and Democratic People's Republic of Korea chairman Kim Jong Un

 The HCM City People’s Committee has approved a project that encourages the recycling of waste, especially plastic waste picked up by private garbage collectors.

Twenty-two projects involved in irrigation, disaster prevention and clean water supplies had effectively used more than US$2.7 billion in official development assistant (ODA) over the last 25 years.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) has announced a toll station that was robbed three weeks ago had the appropriate amount of cash on-site.

Thousands of employees of a garment company in central Nghệ An province on Tuesday afternoon went on strike after discovering the company had cut their housing, petrol and hazardous working condition allowances.

A fire broke out at a shopping mall in Từ Sơn Town in the northern province of Bắc Ninh on Wednesday morning, causing widespread panic.

Deep underwater surveys will help develop Việt Nam’s fishing industry. That was the message from Nguyễn Quang Hùng, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Fisheries, who acknowledges the country was lacking in deep water and ecosystem data.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Tuesday applauded the silent contributions of doctors and health workers from central to grassroots levels to public healthcare on the occasion of Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27).

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held an inaugural seminar on the multi-dimensional review of Việt Nam in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

An ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on the application of the 1982 United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea – UNCLOS and related UN legal documents was organised in Việt Nam’s central coastal province of Nha Trang yesterday.

The Cai Lậy BOT Toll Station in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang is scheduled to re-open in March 2019 after more than one years of suspension due to drivers’ protests

On Monday, The Supreme People’s Procuracy charged the former chairman of a support centre for poor people for fraudulent appropriation of assets, saying he and his six accomplices took VNĐ 148 billion (US$ 6.37 million) from more than 1,000 people since 2015.

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved a detailed construction plan at a scale of 1:500 for Bạch Đằng Park in District 1.

On Monday, border guards in the central province of Nghệ An captured a smuggler carrying 4,800 synthetic drug tablets near the border with Laos.

Vietnam Railways (VNR) has announced it will provide free train tickets for international journalists who registered to cover the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Vietnam, which will take place in the capital city of Hà Nội on February 27-28.

A container truck travelling on the HCM City – Trung Lương Expressway in the southern province of Long An on early Tuesday morning collided with two other container trucks stopped on the sidewalk, killing a driver who was standing between the two stopped vehicles

HCM City’s energy-saving programme in 2016–20 has achieved significant success and is being promoted across the country.

Surveillance cameras to monitor traffic violations will be installed on trial basis in Hà Nội and HCM City by 2020 and across the country by 2022, according to the Government’s direction.