Việt Nam News

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.

A delegation from the National Assembly’s economic committee on Jun 25 inspected parts of HCM City’s Metro Line No. 1 (Bến Thành-Suối Tiên) construction project to examine why costs have increased in recent years and find ways to seek more capital sources.

Various organisations from the central to the grassroots level have joined hands to alleviate the suffering caused by a flood that inundated two provinces last Saturday night.

The 6th Global Environment Facility Assembly introduced innovations in terms of integrated approaches for cities, commodity supply chains and food security in Africa.

In summer it is a common sight to see children reading books at Kim Đồng Book Centre in District 1, one of the few good spots for them in HCM City.

Though he has grown and sold mangosteen fruit for 20 years, Lê Văn Sơn in of the Bến Tre Province in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has gradually removed the trees from his orchard over the last two years.

 Participants in a workshop in Hà Nội yesterday recommended legal regulations on child labour be amended which is among measures to prevent child labour for a safe and healthy generation. 

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu has started construction on the Bạc Liêu – Sài Gòn General Hospital, a VNĐ1.37 trillion (US$60 trillion) project which is expected to reduce patient overcrowding at local medical facilities.

The HCM City People’s Committee has announced the new co-efficients used for calculating land prices in some areas for paying compensation this year.

The trial of Đặng Thanh Bình, former deputy governor of the State Bank of Việt Nam, who is charged with “lacking responsibility and causing serious consequences” began yesterday at the HCM City’s People’s Court.