Việt Nam News

A man has been arrested trying to smuggle almost two and a half kilos of heroin into Việt Nam from Laos.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s 12 provinces and Cần Thơ City have achieved good results in the national target programme on new - style rural area building, with rural incomes and living conditions improving considerably.

Last Wednesday a broom fell from the 17th floor of the New Horizon City building in the capital's Hoàng Mai District, hitting a 16-month-old baby.

According to the report, signed by Deputy Minister of Transport (MOT) Lê Anh Tuấn, the two biggest international airports in the country are under great pressure.

The HCM City administration is in the process of integrating the data of all its departments and agencies to create a common-use shared digital map as a part of the city’s smart city project.

Compliance with occupational safety and hygiene regulations remains lax, affecting the lives of workers and their families, an official from the HCM City Federation of Labour said at a conference held on Wednesday (August 11).

After reaching a consensus with the People’s Committee of Tây Ninh Province, the HCM City People’s Committee has petitioned the Prime Minister and Ministry of Transport for permission to call for investment for the HCM City – Mộc Bài Expressway project.

 Two Vietnamese universities are among the top 1,000 universities in the world.

The High Command of Chemicals under the Ministry of National Defence has started to remove toxic substances at the burnt-out warehouse of Rạng Đông Light Sources and Vacuum Flask JSC in Thanh Xuân District’s Hạ Đình Ward.

A total of 240 workers will be chosen for working abroad in Japan this year, the Department of Overseas Labour (DoLAB) under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) declared on Wednesday.

The rate of Vietnamese women who have a job stayed at about 48.5 per cent in 2016, however this was little changed from 2009.

Nguyễn Khắc Hiền, Director General of the Hà Nội Health Department, talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper on his department’s commitment to offering a better health service to the people

Secretary of the HCM City Party Nguyễn Thiện Nhân said at a conference held on Tuesday that the city expects to outline a plan to build embankments and improve management of land along rivers and canals by the year-end.

Nearly 1,100 hospital management and healthcare professionals from the Asia Pacific region attended Hospital Management Asia 2019, an annual event for Asian healthcare leaders, which opened in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

The light bulb factory that caught fire releasing toxic chemical fumes into the atmosphere late in August has been told that it must relocated to the outskirts of Hà Nội.

A large-scale meth lab has been busted in a joint operation between Vietnamese and Chinese law enforcement officers.

Two days of heavy rain in north Việt Nam has left five people dead, five more injured, and one person missing.

Two workers have reportedly died of suffocation in the northern province of Thanh Hóa on Tuesday.