Việt Nam News

An online gambling ring on the microblogging services Zalo has been busted in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông, the municipal police announced on Wednesday.

Government officials yesterday provided further details to the media at the Government meeting for August, regarding matters of concern among the public recently.

The fourth ASEAN-China-United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Symposium kicked off in Hà Nội on Wednesday with discussion focusing on innovation in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and eradicating poverty.

At least four people have been killed and eight others remain missing in central localities after torrential rains brought by a tropical depression have stricken the region over the past few days.  

Võ Văn Cương, vice principal of Ngọc Yêu Secondary School, removes mud from his sandals after walking for 20 minutes along a dirt road after heavy rain.

Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are taking measures to adapt to low levels of flooding this year by switching to new crops and using other cultivation methods. 

Chemical drums are dumped in an irrigation canal on Thăng Long Road. — VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Khánh

The driver of a bus in which a young schoolboy died after he was left on board will be prosecuted for manslaughter.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has set the deadline for all schools and hospitals in urban areas go cashless in the next three months.

More than 50,000 new tuberculosis (TB) patients have been discovered nationwide in the first six months of 2019.

With the Mid-Autumn festival drawing near, mooncake markets are bustling as stalls offer a variety of different kinds of cakes.

The Ministry of Transport has approved Long An Province’s proposal to add the construction of a 60km-long axis road connecting HCM City and Long An and Tiền Giang provinces to a transport-infrastructure connectivity project in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.

Some 34 per cent of patients suffer from malnutrition when they receive treatment at local hospitals in HCM City.

In the development of the fourth industrial revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant progress and is expected to make breakthroughs in the next ten years. Following the global trend, the Vietnamese Government aims to turn AI into a driving force of development and make it a top priority in growth policies.

Việt Nam welcomed 11.3 million foreign visitors in the first eight months of this year, during which the highest growth rate was seen in visitors from Asian countries, especially South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan.

The HCM City Development and Research Institute should speed up the classification of old villas so that owners who might want to demolish the structures can build new houses, the city’s People’s Committee has said.

An NGO, Research Centre for Management and Sustainable Development, is helping 130 disadvantaged children in HCM City get personal documents, something they might otherwise struggle to do because of their circumstances.

The central city has recorded the first death due to complications from dengue fever, director of the Đà Nẵng General Hospital, Nguyễn Đức Nhân confirmed yesterday, stating that a 28-year-old patient died on September 1 after undergoing treatment for a week.