Việt Nam News

Both child marriages and incestuous marriages among ethnic minority groups have been a long-term problem for local administrations in Nghệ An and Quảng Bình, although they have taken measures to curb them over the years.

Local authorities in the central provinces of Quảng Ngãi, Bình Định, Phú Yên and Khánh Hòa are planning to more more than 181,000 people from risk-prone areas in response to Typhoon Nakri, which is forecast to be the strongest so far this year in the East Sea.

Leaders of the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk have highlighted the need to spread good examples and practices in building new-style rural areas at a conference held on November 1 to review a decade of the work.

Hà Nội’s Food Hygiene and Safety Control Department has recently inspected 50 street food restaurants and taken food samples for testing, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

The Hưng Yên People’s Committee has fined a company VNĐ345 million (US$15,000) for discharging wastewater causing environmental pollution.

Leaders of the Điện Biên Province Police on Sunday awarded the police division for the investigation of drug-related crimes for their achievements.

More and more households and commercial establishments in the southeastern province of Đồng Nai are installing rooftop solar panels to generate electricity for their own use and to sell the surplus to the local utility.

JICA's survey has found urban railways are a form of transport with lower carbon emissions than cars and motorbikes.

The improvements have come since a socio-economic development programme in extremely disadvantaged communes of ethnic minority and mountainous areas was launched.

The three-year project, which started in April last year, focuses on the ability to produce, collect, analyse, use and disseminate statistical data on energy and the environment.

Hà Nội’s Food Hygiene and Safety Control Department has recently inspected 50 street food restaurants and taken food samples for testing, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

One day after announcing the information affirming that all the 39 victims in the incident of the container truck, detected in Essex county, northeast of London, on October 23, are Vietnamese, the Ministry of Public Security late Friday evening officially announced their identities.

A gang of Vietnamese nationals have been jailed for a total of 37 years after police smashed a sophisticated cannabis ring operating in the United Kingdom.

First prize in the Young Francophones Reporters – Việt Nam 2019 — a writing contest in French held by Le Courrier du Vietnam (CVN) a weekly French language newspaper under Việt Nam News Agency, was awarded on Friday to Vũ Lê Minh Anh and Lê Huỳnh Kiều Nga, students from HCM City Pedagogical University.

The northern province of Quảng Ninh will strive to promote green growth and become a good model for other provinces to follow, said Đặng Huy Hậu, vice chairman of Quảng Ninh People’s Committee.

Police in Hải Phòng City have reported that they just busted a case of illegal trading of value-added tax (VAT) invoices, with total sales of over VNĐ2.2 trillion (US$94.8 million).

She made the statement at a conference in Hà Nội yesterday to announce the World Bank (WB)’s study on factors impacting socio-economic development in ethnic minority regions in Việt Nam.

The unfolding revolution in internet and information and communication technologies offers an array of innovative and dynamic opportunities to unleash the potential of women and girls, a senior development official has said.