Việt Nam News

About VNĐ6.3 billion (US$272,000) has been donated by the public to buy gifts for poor people during Tết (Lunar New Year) Holiday.

The northern province of Vĩnh Phúc will put in place different measures this year to improve the lives of children living with HIV and help them integrate into the community, said experts from the provincial social sponsoring centre.

Police in Kỳ Sơn District, in the central province of Nghệ An, on Monday started criminal proceedings against a 32-year-old woman for allegedly sending pregnant women to China to sell their newborn babies.

Hà Nội’s delayed Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway project again missed the target for beginning commercial operation as planned on December 2018, before the Tết (Lunar New Year) festival.

The project to broaden Pháp Vân-Cầu Giẽ Expressway – the southern gateway to Hà Nội – from four to six lanes has nearly been completed and will be operational in a few weeks.

Linh Giang and her five-year-old son travel nearly 600km from the central province of Quảng Trị to Hà Hội for periodic eye check-ups.

A male patient remained fully conscious for a large portion of an operation on his brain tumour, the first such procedure in Việt Nam.

Authorities in HCM City have tightened control of harmful food additives for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

The HCM City People’s Committee has issued an urgent dispatch to its Department of Construction and the District 1’s People’s Committee to relocate families living in a 20-year-old apartment building that could collapse at any time.

All 19 children under supervision at the Hải Phòng Paediatrics Hospital after receiving the Combe Five vaccine were discharged from hospital in a stable condition, said Phạm Văn Dương, deputy director of the hospital.

HCM City Oncology Hospital yesterday held an event to give presents to cancer patients for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam (DRVN) had asked the Vietnam Infrastructure Development and Finance Investment Joint Stock Company (VIDIFI) to conduct repairs to prevent traffic accidents on National Highway 5 ahead of the busy Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday, Vietnam Plus reported.

As public primary schools and kindergartens close down for the Tết holiday from January 26, nine days ahead of Tết, their parents have been forced to look for babysitters to take care of them during the period.

The HCM City Urban Railway Management Board (MAUR) will closely work with contractors, consulting firms and others to speed up the city’s first metro route between Bến Thành and Suối Tiên, a meeting heard last weekend.

About 70-80 per cent of Vietnamese living in Cambodia have gained the country’s legal recognition that paves the way for them to obtain Cambodian citizenship, a Vietnamese official said.

Recruitment demand, especially senior positions in consumer electronics and real estate, is expected to increase as more companies relocate from China to Việt Nam, according to the latest report from Navigos Group.

The Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng said it has achieved outstanding results in conserving fisheries resources by effectively preventing the use of banned fishing methods and increasing public awareness of the need for protecting fish stocks.

The amount of scrap imported into Việt Nam is likely to rise considerably, the Ministry of Finance has warned.