Việt Nam News

The HCM City tourism sector needs to provide better inputs to the government and improve marketing and promotion to maximise the city’s tourism potential, experts have said.

A competition for inventors with the theme “Innovative Technology for Daily Life” was launched today in Hà Nội.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên have officially opened an investigation after a 54-year-old man killed a couple in Mường Thanh Ward on Wednesday morning before killing himself.

Vietnamese and Japanese experts shared their experiences in fire safety and evacuation at an international workshop in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Typhoon Bebinca, the fourth storm to form in the East Sea this year, had gained in strength as it approached northern and central provinces on Thursday morning.

Three hundred more coaches and buses would be put into service for the upcoming National Day holiday on September 2, according to a representative of the Hà Nội Bus Station Company.

They are but the tip of the iceberg and, according to the country's tax authorities, a very large one at that. 

It’s a busy time of year for bee hunters with just a little over a month left to collect honey.

The Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng has huge potential to grow organic rice, including the lucrative ST24 variety, according to the province Department of Science and Technology.

The education sector in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are preparing for the new school year, investing in and upgrading infrastructure and building new facilities, especially at boarding schools for ethnic minorities.

Hà Nội yesterday announced a decision to grant clemency to 34 prisoners who are serving sentences at the city’s detention centres.

The Plant Protection Department under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will ban the use of glyphosate, an active ingredient in many weed killers when there is enough evidence proving the herbicide has impacts on human health, said Hoàng Trung, head of the department.

HCM City appellate court maintained prison sentences for seven defendants while accepted appeals and reduced sentences for the remaining three.

Promoting laws of the sea and rescuing fishermen in danger should be the priority of Việt Nam Coast Guard, President Trần Đại Quang stressed yesterday at his meeting with the force’s delegation, representatives of 11 island districts, enterprises and other socioeconomic organisations.  

The Hải Phòng Market Watch, in co-ordination with the municipal police, on Tuesday discovered nearly two tonnes of cosmetics with unclear origin, said Đào Văn Long, deputy director of the Hải Phòng Market Watch.

 Traffic police yesterday found more than 100 kilos of explosives on a coach on National Highway 1A in Diễn Châu District, the central province of Nghệ An.

Typhoon Bebinca was bearing down on northern and central provinces yesterday and was forecast to blanket the area with torrential rains of up to 350mm.

Two middle-aged victims, a husband and wife, were found dead in their home of gun wounds to the head early this morning in the northern city of Điện Biên Phủ.