Việt Nam News

The People’s Committee of Đồng Nai Province has instructed the provincial police to investigate the sale of house foundations by Alibaba Real Estate Joint-Stock Company in the province’s Long Thành District.

The Mekong Delta, the rice bowl of Việt Nam, is sinking. HCM City, the country’s economic engine, is facing severe urban flooding. How can The government and people solve these problems? Việt Nam News reporter Khoa Thư talks with Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for Water Affairs of the Netherlands, on this issue.

Nearly 600 schoolchildren in HCM City participated yesterday in the BASF Kids’ Lab, an interactive educational programme for kids aged six to 12 to discover the world of chemistry through simple and safe hands-on experiments.

Hà Nội will not charge a fee for motorbikes travelling into inner-city areas, said Vũ Văn Viện, director of the city’s Department of Transportation.

Hà Nội People’s Court on Thursday sentenced three people to death and one to life imprisonment on charges of drug trafficking.

Technical factors and the quality of the new Bạch Đằng Bridge in northern Quảng Ninh Province meet design and safety standards, said representatives from relevant agencies.

The northern province of Thái Nguyên’s Department of Health has launched a system of combined medical records for mothers and children.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Thai Ministry of Labour have reached an agreement on sending guest workers to Thailand to work in the construction and fishing sectors.

The public should be central in the process of policy communication to ensure the effectiveness of communication and the implementation of policies, heard an international scientific conference in Hà Nội yesterday.

Large-scale vision screening programmes for children are needed for early detection and treatment of visual impairment due to refractive error, experts said at the Việt Nam Ophthalmological Society Congress that opened in HCM City yesterday.

The Government of Việt Nam spends about VNĐ65 trillion (US$2.79 billion) dealing with the consequences of alcohol each year, while alcoholic beverage firms contribute roughly VNĐ50 trillion ($2.14 billion) to the country’s economy, a health official revealed.

Discussions and forums on the South China Sea (called East Sea by Việt Nam) have become sources of interdisciplinary study among scholars and researchers from the fields of politics, social policy, environment and strategy over the past decade.

The fish ‘belong’ to Phạm Văn Cường, 64, commonly known as Năm Cường, in Vĩnh Ngươn District, Châu Đốc City in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee wants special powers to help restore old buildings. They have asked the Ministry of Construction to put their proposals to the Government in the hope of easing difficulties with building projects.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has approved a feasibility report on a project of land clearance, compensation and resettlement support related to the construction of Long Thành International Airport in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

One of the main achievements of Việt Nam’s agricultural restructuring plan over the last five years is the formation of three product categories – national key products, local key products and those under the programme “one village, one product”.

Nguyễn Hùng, a paralysed lottery ticket seller in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế, has finally got his dream house. Part of funding for construction came from a housing programme run by the UNDP.

In a bid to create a healthy networking atmosphere in the country, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has completed a code of conduct on social networks for internet service providers and users, said Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng, Minister of Information and Communications.