Việt Nam News

An inauguration ceremony in the city was held yesterday (June 26) to open Romania’s Honorary Consulate Office at No 214 Võ Thị Sáu Street in HCM City’s District 3.

Việt Nam has not recorded any mutations of the swine flu (A/H1N1) virus, according to Dr Nguyễn Thanh Trường from HCM City’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

Nông Thôn Việt magazine’s Rural Bridges Programme yesterday inaugurated 11 bridges it built in Thạnh Hưng District, Long An Province.

Four people died after being electrocuted while installing telecommunications pylons in the central province of Nghệ An.

Mass fish deaths along rivers in the southernmost province of Cà Mau have recurred in Đầm Dơi District, the local People’s Committee reported yesterday.

The Hà Nội Transport Service Company (Transerco) plans to issue tickets for the double-decker tour bus service at cheaper price to attract more visitors this summer.

Vehicles has been allowed to travel between Lào Cai City and Sa Pa District through National Highway 4D after landslides previously blocked traffic on the highway.

Việt Nam and other countries located near Southeast Asia's notorious 'Golden Triangle' are facing numerous challenges in the fight against drug trafficking.

Many construction works in HCM City designed to check soil erosion are running well behind schedule due to land acquisition and resettlement delays.

Raising tobacco taxes could help reduce smoking and the harm it causes to women and children, experts said at a workshop held in Hà Nội on Monday.

Việt Nam has strongly committed to reducing plastic waste country-wide and in the long term, working to reduce it all together.

Nguyễn Duy Hải, 17, from Hà Nội, is a familiar patient of the Immunity-Allergy-Articulation Ward under the National Paediatrics Hospital (NPH) during the past 10 years.

Flash floods and landslides triggered by downpours over recent days have left 21 dead, 9 missing and 12 injured in the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Châu and Hà Giang by 4pm on June 26.

The central Phú Yên Province police have launched legal proceedings against a former treasurer of Phú Yên Forest Protection Department for alleged embezzlement.

Fourteen households in a landslide-prone area in Mekong Delta An Giang Province were evacuated to safer areas after a landslide left a 230m-long crack on a riverbank, according to local authorities.

Authorities in northern Quảng Ninh Province are attempting to salvage three ships that sank off the coastal city of Cẩm Phả.

Police in central Thanh Hóa Province busted an online football gambling ring worth nearly VNĐ100 billion (US$4.3 million), arresting 11 people.