Việt Nam News

Severe drought over recent months has left 10,000 households in rural areas of the central coastal province of Phú Yên facing a serious shortage of water.

The People’s Committee of Đắk Nông Province has fined three businesses a total of VNĐ500 million (US$21,500) for trading low-quality gasoline.

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with Alive & Thrive today announced two hospitals as Centres of Excellence for Breastfeeding, including Trần Văn Thời Hospital in Cà Mau Province and Cần Thơ Gynaecology and Obstetrics Hospital in Cần Thơ City.

Border guards in Lạng Sơn Province caught a man and a woman trying to cross into China with a newborn baby on Sunday, in an effort likely put a stop to a human trafficking case

A fire destroyed most of the kiosks of the Hoà Bình border market in the Mekong Delta province of Tây Ninh on Sunday.

The Association of Việt Nam Universities and Colleges should become a link to connect private universities with each other and with public universities to help improve training quality, according to private universities.

Since early 2018, Hà Nội’s consumers have been able to scan quick response (QR) codes to trace the origins of agricultural products sold at supermarkets and convenience store; however, the impact of this change has been limited because producers find the system difficult to apply and consumers do not fully trust the codes' authenticity.

For nearly 10 years, he has been an indispensable part of Phú Thành Commune, Phú Tân District, famous for a work-hard mentality and devoting his time and money to his charity pursuits.

Bùi Sỹ Lợi, vice chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs talks to Thời Báo Kinh Tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) about enterprises with social security debts and solutions for the issue.

More than 500 students, who are poor, orphans and living with disabilities, received scholarships yesterday in the southern province of Bến Tre.

Up to 84.2 per cent of the communes in the capital city of Hà Nội have met the standards for new-style rural areas as of April this year.

The Government has adopted an intellectual property strategy with the goal to further improve Việt Nam's global innovation index (GII), the Vietnam Government Portal reported.

Transport authorities said last week that car owners would still have to pay road use fees, even if the road maintenance fund is abolished.

HCM City is seeking to speed up spending on public projects after many districts reported slow rates so far this year.

Drivers of xe ôm – or motorbike taxis – carrying passengers and goods and drivers of non-motorised vehicles will have to register with authorised agencies, according to a new draft regulation on the management and use of non-motorised vehicles and motorcycles in the capital city of Hà Nội.

Four people were killed and one more injured after the single scooter they were all driving ploughed into the median of a main street in the city of Thái Nguyên, northern Thái Nguyên Province today.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang has harvested more than 130,000 tonnes of aquatic species so far this year, up 15 per cent from the same period last year, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The scandal was brought to light late last year when an investigation by Vietnam Television found the 58-year-old principal took advantage of his position to call many male students to his office for so-called study checks.