Việt Nam News

A woman’s role often involves a delicate balance between family and work responsibilties, resembling a circus performer’s talking on a tightrope, a top Google Việt Nam official said during a recent discussion with employees of Nestlé Việt Nam at its local office.

Two hundred teachers and administrators from senior high-schools, colleges and universities in HCM City have met with Finnish experts to discuss the education model in Việt Nam.

More than 100 youths joined an event on Friday in which they added content to Wikipedia by writing new articles and editing existing ones with information on women profiles, experts and significant women as role models in different fields.  

Co-operation between farmers, co-operatives and enterprises in HCM City needs to be strengthened further, a seminar heard yesterday.

Scientists, especially women, are playing an important role in the sustainable development of each country, the region and the entire world, said Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà, chairwoman of Việt Nam Women’s Union.

The Government Inspectorate has urged HCM City People’s Committee to resolve residents’ complaints in the Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area by the end of this month.

The central city of Đà Nẵng recently announced plans to build a flyover at the busy junction of the Trần Thị Lý Bridge and a two-tunnel project at another junction west of the Rồng (Dragon) bridge with total investment of VNĐ935 billion (US$41.3 million).

Financial and tax experts agreed that Việt Nam's corporate tax is too generous which might lead to insufficient State budget, hurting its development programmes.

Many areas in Quảng Ngãi City are overrun by rubbish while residents await the completion of a new waste treatment plant.

A number of start-up projects and models are being showcased at the two-day Technology Show and Start-up and Innovative Summit that opened in HCM City yesterday (October 18).

ASEAN countries have acknowledged the continuing threat from illicit drug production and trafficking  in the region, including challenges posed by new psychoactive substances, the Sixth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Drug Matters heard.

The Department of Animal Health and Husbandry in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highland) province of Đắk Lắk on Wednesday (Oct 17) culled 2,500 ducks infected with the A/H5N6 bird flu virus.

Medical officials perform first aid on a Canadian tourist in the waters of the southernmost province of Vũng Tàu on Thursday.

Việt Nam Social Insurance is among the State-owned agencies that utilise technology most effectively in data management, Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tiến Dũng said yesterday.

Construction on a second facility for the Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital started yesterday (Oct 17) in HCM City’s Bình Chánh Distrist.

Toyota Motors Việt Nam (TMV) yesterday granted scholarships worth VNĐ690 million to 115 excellent students from 16 universities nationwide.

A primary school built using funds from Azerbaijan’s Heydar Aliyev Foundation was inaugurated in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang Province’s Giáp Trung Commune on Wednesday.

Rescue ship SAR 413, belonging to Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 3, took Joe Vanier, an ill 53-year-old Canadian man, to the mainland in the southern province of Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu at 7:45 am on Thursday.