Việt Nam News

President Trần Đại Quang has congratulated education workers and students nationwide on the occasion of the new academic year 2017- 18. The President hailed the educational sector for obtaining significant achievements in the previous school year with educational reform on the right track and improved education quality.

The spread of dengue fever in Việt Nam is showing signs of slowing down. There are fewer new cases and no deaths reported in the last two weeks.

The Việt Nam Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre Regional 1 in the northern port city of Hải Phòng (Haiphong MRCC), in co-ordination with local border guards rescued a Croatian sailor who suffered a severe accident offshore yesterday.

 The final segments of the Cao Lãnh Bridge in the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp were joined at a ceremony held by the Cửu Long Corporation For Investment, Development and Project Management of Infrastructure (Cửu Long CIPM) yesterday.

Kon Tum Province lacks more than 2,500 management officials, teachers and workers for the education sector in the upcoming new school year, according to the provincial Department of Education and Training.

The Vietnamese Government and the Japan International Co-operation Agency on Thursday signed an Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan deal worth 24.7 billion yen (US$224.5 million) for a draining and waste water treatment system in Biên Hòa City, in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

Two more HCM City districts have extended hours at kindergartens for the upcoming 2017-18 academic year for children of factory workers who work overtime at industrial parks and export processing zones in HCM City.

Hà Nội expected to open 250 new public toilets this year, but so far, only 98 have been opened - and only about 40 are in use.

Dozens of households are threatened because the Krông Nô River has seriously been hit by a landslide.

A serious landslide was reported on Thursday on a section of Thái Nguyên-Chợ Mới Highway, crossing Yên Đĩnh Commune of Bắc Kạn Province’s Chợ Mới District.

By 2020, all telecommunication cables in inner-city districts of Hà Nội will be underground, the city’s Information and Communication Department announced yesterday.

Tam Kỳ City People’s Court on Wednesday ordered a shipbuilding company to compensate a seaman after it willingly conducted a ship's trial, following which the ship’s main machine stopped working.

Phi Anh Đệ, 40, a mechanics of Mekong Delta Phú Yên Province’s Sơn Nguyên Commune, who just graduated from primary school but created several low-cost-but-effective tools for agricultural production in his hometown – an area specialised in growing sugarcane.

With the hope of narrowing the gap between the elderly and the young, high school student Lê Mạnh Linh and his friends have found a new, profound way of connecting older people.

The branch bridge N2 connecting Nguyễn Tri Phương Bridge and Võ Văn Kiệt Street in District 5, which leads to District 1, in HCM City opened for traffic on Wednesday (August 30).

Migrant workers pray for more schools near Industrial Zones so that they do not have to send their children back to their home villages to study.

HCM City has taken great efforts to mobilise capital from the private sector as the City’s State budgets can meet only 20 per cent of the capital required for the city’s development of VNĐ1,800 trillion (over US$80 billion) in the period 2016 – 2020.

Scientists have created a map that warns against land degradation risks in northern mountainous provinces of Điện Biên and Lai Châu.