Việt Nam News

Việt Nam detected more 12,200 hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) patients nationwide last month, according to latest statistics by the Ministry of Health.

Customs officers at Nội Bài International Airport have seized nearly a tonne of elephant tusks, ivory products and pangolin scales hidden inside cargo packages.

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated Palu, Donggala and Mamuju in Central Sulawesi on Friday evening has claimed 832 lives, at the time of writing, and injured many others. The earthquake destroyed infrastructure and homes, leaving survivors without shelter.

The remains of two pilots who crashed a training fighter aircraft into a mountain in 1971 have been found in Tam Đảo on the edge of the northern provinces of Thái Nguyên and Vĩnh Phúc.

Nearly 600 people registered to donate their organs for scientific research at an event held at the Giác Ngộ Pagoda in HCM City’s District 10 on Saturday.

Thượng Thơ Palace in HCM City, built in the mid-19^th century as the seat of administration by the French colonialists, needs to be preserved, a seminar heard on Friday.

Four Vietnamese citizens were among the passengers on a plane of Papua New Guinea’s Air Niugini that missed the runway at an airport in Micronesia last week, the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia confirmed on Sunday. No one was injured and the passengers have been provided with food and accommodations while they remain in Micronesia. 

In a bid to resolve obstacles to the implementation of the national electronic toll collection (ETC) project, the government has allowed the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to decide the how much revenue to extract from BOT projects to pay for ETC service.

Two people died on the spot while six others were injured in an accident in the early Sunday morning on Highway 55 in Xuyên Mộc District, the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu. 

Hà Nội is working on gradually digitising the household registration books of over 7.6 million residents, a move to simplify administrative procedures related to residence management.

A dramatic scene unfolded last week in HCM City when three young workers fell from the Giga Mall construction site on Phạm Văn Đồng Boulevard (Hiệp Bình Chánh Ward, Thủ Đức District) and were seriously injured, raising concerns about safety at high-rise construction sites.

Chư Pưh District of Gia Lai Province has recently traded its reputation as a pepper-growing capital of the Central Highlands for a very different moniker: “the land of debt”.

Household-owned timber plantations must be substantially reformed in order to yield sustainable profits for their owners.

HCM City is eyeing bottom-up administrative reforms, a meeting between city leaders and commune and ward leaders heard on Tuesday.

More than 80 per cent of respondents surveyed about the proposed train design for the city’s metro line 3 rated the plans highly and over 90 per cent of them said they would love to try the new means of transport when the metro line is officially operational.

Quảng Ngãi Marine Port Authority yesterday organised a search and rescue drill at sea in Bình Thuận Commune, Bình Sơn District, central province of Quảng Ngãi.

HCM City should learn lessons from major cities in developed countries on how to become a smart city, speakers said at an international conference held on Sept 28 in the city.

Poverty alleviation programmes aiming to help people in mountainous areas of central Quảng Ngãi Province are ineffective and unsustainable, local authorities said.