Việt Nam News

Hail and whirlwinds in the northern mountainous region killed one person and injured three others over the weekend, the National Committee of Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue reported on Monday evening. Damage to private property, crops, livestock and public buildings was estimated to cost VNĐ26 billion (US$1.1 million) in total. 

Cloudy murky tap water reported by residents living in Cẩm Lệ and Thanh Khê districts of central Đà Nẵng City in the recent days might be caused by dust from downgrading water pipes. These pipes are made from steel or cast iron and have been used for a long time, said Hồ Minh Nam, deputy director of Đà Nẵng Clean Water Supply (DAWACO).

The Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang will expand various sustainable shrimp farming models to meet its target of producing 76,000 tonnes this year, slightly up from last year, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are setting up firebreaks, preparing equipment and putting up warning boards as the area’s forests face a high risk of fire in the dry season.

Việt Nam, like many other countries, is in a bid to spur economic innovation with Artificial Intelligence (AI), but experts say the country is starting from at a low point and needs to make a huge effort to catch up with the global trend.

General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyễn Đức Lợi spoke highly of the growing Việt Nam-Republic of Korea ties in a diverse range of areas, during a meeting with RoK Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon in Seoul yesterday.

Four men will be prosecuted for the rape and murder of a university student in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên, the provincial police announced yesterday.

After a 26 year-old taxi driver was killed near Mỹ Đình National Stadium, Hà Nội on the evening of January 29, images of a taxi with a protective screen separating the driver appeared online. Users on social media agreed with the taxi driver’s solution, especially after such a brutal murder.

Hà Nội’s Transport Department said it would conduct maintenance work on Thanh Trì Bridge, where subsidence and cracks have been reported recently.

Blood reserves at the National Blood Centre under the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion would only be enough to cover the next three days, warned Phạm Tuấn Dương, deputy director of the institute.

The Ministry of Public Security has started an investigation into an acid attack on an overseas Vietnamese in the central province of Quảng Ngãi during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Hundreds of hectares of crops and trees were damaged after heavy rainfall and whirlwinds swept through a northern mountainous province on Sunday afternoon.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee is seeking approval from the Ministry of Transport for continuing to open parking lots under four bridges until 2023 as a solution to the shortage of parking spaces in the city.

The Hà Nội Transport and Services Corporation (Transerco) has launched two bus routes running from Gia Lâm Coach Station and Kim Mã Street to carry visitors to Hương (Perfume) Pagoda festival in Hương Sơn Commune, Mỹ Đức District.

The Vietnamese Government has issued a series of conditions required to set up a foreign-invested vocational training institution in Việt Nam, expected to take effect from March 20.

A series of policies and measures have been devised and implemented by authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh in recent years to improve the spiritual and material life of the Khmer community.

Now the week-long Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday has ended and schools have resumed, many classrooms in mountainous localities still feel strangely empty as local students have not returned.

The HCM City Department of Transport aims to have 75 per cent of the new buses running on clean fuel by the end of 2020.