Việt Nam News

The driver causing an accident that killed three people on Saturday was tested positive to morphine, said the Gia Lai Province Traffic Safety Committee yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday visited the International Media Centre (IMC) in Hà Nội to inspect preparations ahead of this week’s DPRK-USA Summit.

The HCM City chapter of the Vietnam Red Cross Society will seek support from local and international organisations, enterprises and individuals to help 10,000 charity organisations, poor and orphaned people and Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims and people with disabilities this year.

Police in central Thanh Hóa Province’s Triệu Sơn District are investigating the alleged physical abuse of an eight-year-old girl by her father.

Nearly 70 per cent of schools in the country lack yard space for students to exercise, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Former ministers of Information and Communications Nguyễn Bắc Son and Trương Minh Tuấn were prosecuted and put into custody on Saturday with the accusation of violating provisions on the public investment capital management and use and causing serious consequences.

Phùng Đức Tiến, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks to Việt Nam News reporter Gia Lộc about measures to prevent the spread of African swine fever in Việt Nam, including the southern region.

A high-speed rail route between HCM City and Cần Thơ will help smoothen passenger and cargo transport in the Mekong Delta, transportation experts have said.

Farmers in the south-eastern province of Bình Phước are entering the peak black pepper harvest season but suffer from a shortage of workers.

Việt Nam's labour market is predicted to hit 56 million in 2019, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has announced.

Construction of HCM City’s first metro line from Bến Thành market in District 1 to Suối Tiên Tourist Park in district 9 is expected to be completed by the end of 2020, leaders of the city People’s Committee said after visiting the construction site on Thursday.

Hà Nội had been pulling out the stops to prepare for the second Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – United States (US) Summit which will take place from February 27 to 28.

The Cửu Long University held a ceremony on Thursday to announce the Prime Minister’s decision to shift the university to private status, the first of its kind in the Mekong Delta.

HCM City has promised to improve the spiritual and material life of the ethnic minority community in the city, the head of the city’s Việt Nam Fatherland Front Committee said at a meeting on Thursday (Feruary 21).

On Thursday, police in northern Hà Giang Province started legal proceedings against Nguyễn Quang Huy, deputy director of Phong Quang Special Use Forest Management Board under the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, for abusing his power and position to appropriate assets.

Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation and the Gia Lai Province Traffic Safety Committee launched a new public awareness campaign and made school zone road modifications in Pleiku city as part of a programme to reduce vehicle speeds in school zones, the first of its kind in the country.  

Following a number of recent serious traffic accidents, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee Trương Hòa Bình has asked concerned organisations to redouble checks for violations related to alcohol and drug consumption among drivers.

The Nhổn – Hà Nội Railway depot included in the CP08 construction package and elements of the surrounding elevated section are expected to be completed this year, according to the Hà Nội People’s Committee.