Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Transport has announced plan to repair the National Highway No 5, connecting Hà Nội to the northern city of Hải Phòng, with the total cost estimated at over VNĐ2 billion (US$86 million).

Dengue fever is spreading in different districts in the central province of Quảng Nam and, so far this year, more than 2,480 cases have been reported, according to the provincial Preventive Medicine Centre.

The five-member Vietnamese team bagged four medals at the 12th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) in Beijing, China, held from November 3 to 11.

The People’s Court of northern Phú Thọ Province on Monday brought to trial two former senior officers of the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) and 90 accomplices for their alleged involvement in a major online gambling ring.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp have begun to use more than 3,000ha of low-yield rice fields for growing fruits and other crops this year.

The Ministry of Transport has asked Hà Nội to reconsider its plan to build new interstate coach terminals for short term use, including the controversial Yên Sở station, to avoid wastefulness.

The number of cases of dengue fever in HCM City shot up by 125 per cent in October compared to a year earlier and could rise further this month, the peak season, the Preventive Health Centre has warned.

Rescuers on Saturday discovered the body of one victim of a gold mine collapse in Lộng Village, Thanh Nông Commune, Lạc Thủy District, the northern province of Hòa Bình.

Việt Nam’s agriculture strives towards annual growth of minimum 3 per cent, with labour productivity improving 3.5 per cent a year by 2020, said agriculture deputy minister Hà Công Tuấn.

The HCM City People’s Committee has sought an explanation from all related authorities for why the owners of 17,300 apartments and houses have not received title deeds.

A 27-year-old French man has moved to Việt Nam to look for his biological parents who left him at an orphanage in HCM City when he was 10 months old. Bồ Xuân Hiệp reports. 

Two Vietnamese workers were killed and two others injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in Wonju city, the east of the Republic of Korea (RoK), on Saturday.

A judge in Ypres town of Belgium has ordered the arrest of a suspect in the murder of a Vietnamese girl, which took place in Geluwe town in West Flanders province of Belgium in 2016.

More than 300 families in Nguyệt Ấn Commune in the northern province of Thanh Hóa have claimed rock blasting during the construction of the northern Chu and southern Mã Rivers Irrigation System project is threatening their lives and damaging their houses.

It is time for Việt Nam to develop a new industrial relations framework to boost economic growth and enterprise productivity and ensure workers receive a fair share of the gains produced through their labour.

Labourers are asked to return to Việt Nam when their contracts end. If they do return, they will have the chance to return to South Korea to work.

About 1,000 helmets were distributed to pupils at a public school in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Việt Nam Waste Solutions (VWS) on Thursday gifted two eco-friendly garbage trucks each to HCM City and Long An and Kiên Giang provinces.