Việt Nam News

Three people who got a luxury car smuggled from Cambodia to HCM City and forged its papers have received stiff prison sentences.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the first solar energy project in the coastal province of Bình Thuận was held today.

The number of drug users is rising in the southern province of Đồng Nai, causing public concern in the region.

A tunnel route on National Highway 1 between the two central provinces of Bình Định and Phú Yên will be put into operation in January 2019. 

 Hà Nội police have detained deputy chairman of the Việt Nam Agricultural Economic Science and Rural Development Association Lê Minh Tiến for property appropriation.

Cần Thơ seeks to cooperate with Australia in many fields, especially in sustainable energy and agriculture, said the vice chairman of Cần Thơ City’s People’s Committee at a meeting with Australian Consul General last weekend in Cần Thơ.

After 2020, Việt Nam could avoid building any new coal plants, while maintaining a safe, affordable and secure energy system.

Social security mechanism and regulations will have to be changed since the fourth industrial revolution and free movement of labour have led to new kinds of jobs and ways of working, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has said.

Differences in statistics released by various agencies have hindered road safety efforts, reported online traffic safety newspaper atgt.vn.

The Mekong River Commission organised a consultation workshop in HCM City yesterday for the Pak Lay hydropower project proposed on the Mekong’s mainstream in Xayaburi Province in north-western Laos.

The number of hand, foot and mouth infections has surged at schools in HCM City, especially at kindergartens, according to the city’s Preventive Health Centre.

A group of experts is attempting to develop a standard guideline to support the rehabilitation of children with autism in Việt Nam.

Controversial skin-care ingredients such as hydroquinone and corticosteroid are found in skin-lightening creams that have been extensively promoted online in Việt Nam over the last few years.

HCM City aims to build more than 90,000 accommodations for workers which would include 15 projects for low-cost apartments and social housing accommodations for workers on a total area of 47 hectares.

A group of doctors and social workers from the Bạch Mai Hospital (under the Ministry of Health) collaborated with Yên Bái Province's health department to organise free screenings for vascular diseases for 120 patients at the Yên Bái General Hospital. The group also presented gifts for the poor patients, local war heroes, as well as delivered scholarships and life skill books for 322 primary students in the northern mountainous locality. The programme was funded by the US-based medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific. — VNA/VNS Photos Dương Ngọc

Border guards in the central province of Quảng Trị on Tuesday captured two Lao men carrying 200,000 synthetic drug tablets across the border into Việt Nam.

Four Vietnamese nationals appeared in court on Tuesday accused of stealing SG$26,000 (US$19,000) worth of women's clothes - the biggest haul by a shoplifting syndicate in Singapore to date.

A flash flood triggered by heavy downpours has submerged schools in Yên Tĩnh Commune, Tương Dương District in the central province of Nghệ An.