Việt Nam News

The last three Vietnamese tourists wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Egypt late last year are set to leave hospital and travel back home on Wednesday. The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt said the group is expected to arrive in HCM City early in the morning of Thursday.

As much as 14 tonnes of scrap smuggled from Cambodia to Việt Nam were seized, Major Đinh Quang Điềm, head of Long Bình Border Guard Station in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang told the Vietnam News Agency on Tuesday.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) plans to provide at least 1.5 million gifts to the poor, Agent Orange victims, disadvantaged people and those affected by natural disasters in 2018 ahead the traditional Tết (Lunar New Year) festival.

Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Tuấn Anh made a public apology yesterday involving a case which found an official car from his ministry had picked up a relative in a restricted area at Nội Bài International Airport last Friday.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) is considering preventing cash flowing into hatred and illegal advertising on Facebook and collecting taxes to deal with the social network’s violations of laws in Việt Nam.

About VNĐ15 trillion (US$646 million) will be mobilised for One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme, said Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ.

A work plan for 2019 to help HCM City review its climate change policies and update action plans was agreed at the final workshop of a Japan International Cooperation Agency technical co-operation project.

A project of Japan International Co-operation Agency has helped primary students in Hải Phòng City changing eating habits to prevent overweight and obesity.

Provinces across the country are taking action to prevent the spread of disease that has affected cattle and poultry breeding facilities and farms in recent weeks.

The Việt Nam Register (VR) has asked its branches nationwide to increase technical safety examinations of vehicles, particularly container trucks, coaches and tractor trailers, as part of measures to improve traffic safety.

Six children were admitted to Điện Biên Province General Hospital on Sunday suffering side effects of the ComBE Five vaccine, three of them had serious reactions.

One Vietnamese sailor has died and two others are still missing after the Vietnamese oil tanker Aulac Fortune caught fire off the coast of Hong Kong yesterday, reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A passenger bus with 23 people on board drove off the winding Hải Vân Pass in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province this afternoon, plunging downhill and killing at least one passenger.

Using out-of-date bread and sandwiches from supermarkets in HCM City, farmer Vũ Thị Hậu has found a clean source of food for her fish, and earns profits of more than VNĐ500 million (US$21,700) per year.

Farmers growing flowers and ornamental trees for Tết holidays in many provinces are waiting for a bumper crop this year.

Power shortages could occur in the southern region from 2021 to 2025, according to a report from Việt Nam Electricity (EVN).

It may have only been five seconds long, but the video clip that went viral of a truck smashing into 21 motorbikes has left a permanent scar on those who viewed it. Four people died and 18 needed hospital treated after the crash Bình Nhựt crossroads in Bến Lức District of Long An Province.

Salt producers in the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre have yet to begin their harvest one month into the 2018 -19 season because of unseasonable rains.