Việt Nam News

The UK Royal Navy’s amphibious assault ship HMS Albion, commanded by Colonel Tim Neild, docked at the Nhà Rồng International Port in HCM City yesterday, beginning its four-day goodwill visit to Việt Nam.

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The Da Nang City-based Thành Đạt Group and Czech Future Investment company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop an international peadiatrics hospital in Đà Nẵng.

Việt Nam’s National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) has ordered the traffic safety boards of Hà Nội and HCMC and GrabTaxi Việt Nam Co Ltd to regulate and strictly handle Grab riders using mobile phones when riding.

The Hạ Long-Hải Phòng Expressway was opened to traffic at a ceremony on Saturday which saw the attendance of Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has urged collaboration including stronger monitoring and preparedness measures to prevent African swine fever from spreading to Việt Nam.

HCM City aims to reduce the number of poor households by 0.8 per cent next year and raise the average income per capita of these households by 3.5 times by 2020 compared to 2011.

The HCM City Department of Transport plans to set up three new compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations to meet refueling demand of CNG buses this year, according to the director of the department's Public Transportation Management Centre.

Twelve world-leading experts on nano technology from Japan, Singapore and the US yesterday gathered at the “International Conference on Nano-technology and Materials Application” at Sài Gòn High-Tech Park (SHTP) in HCM City.

Vương Duy Bảo, grandson of the last Mong King Vương Chí Sình, in late July wrote a letter to the Prime Minister to ask for the return of a century-old palace to his family.

The number of road traffic accidents, traffic-related deaths and injuries in Việt Nam dropped in the first eight months of this year, compared with the same period last year, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

Child labour remains a great challenge for HCM City authorities although a wide range of measures have been taken to tackle children labour, especially in the informal sector of the economy, officials have said.

A former chairman of State-owned PVTEX was sentenced to 28 years in prison for corruption and deliberate wrongdoings, a Hà Nội court ruled on Friday.

Shrimp products from Ninh Thuận Province on Wednesday received a Certificate of Trademark from the Intellectual Property Department.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang released water from the Tha La and Trà Sư dams in Tịnh Biên District on Friday morning to ease the flooding in the Long Xuyên Quadrangle.

More than 700 families in Thiệu Dương Commune and Đông Hải Ward in the central city of Thanh Hóa were evacuated by Friday morning as their area is suffering from serious flooding due to the continuous rising of the water level in the Mã River.

The People’s Committee of Bà Rịa Province on Wednesday discussed solutions to develop tourism and protect the environment at a conference held as part of the Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province Sea Festival, which kicked off on Tuesday.

Three teachers were suspended after being caught on video allow students to beat up a classmate at Ninh Bình City’s Cầu Vồng (Rainbow) kindergarten.