Việt Nam News

When it comes to the An Kim Hải drainage channel, Phạm Hữu has seen just about all there is to see. For more than 40 years he has witnessed first hand the water go from clean, to seriously polluted, and now restored back to the way it should be.

Daniel Nguyễn Hoài Tiến is not Vietnamese. He wasn’t born in Vietnam, nor is he a citizen. But in other ways, both big and small, Tiến is Vietnamese through and through.

Many transport projects as part of the second express highway in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta may not be completed by 2020 because of surging prices and a scarcity of construction sand.

Large-scale production areas for key national products will be expanded this year under the country’s action plan to ensure food safety in the agricultural sector, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Up to 131 weak bridges on the North-South railway will be repaired or replaced by 2021.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee and Japan’s AEON Group planted 1,000 new cherry blossom trees in Hoà Bình Park on Saturday, raising the total number to 1,700.

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.

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.

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.

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.