Việt Nam News

The passage in and out of Bến Lội – Bình Châu fishing port in Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province is thickly silted, affecting hundreds of fishing boats.

The country’s infertility rate currently stands at about 8 per cent of Vietnamese couples, experts say, indicating that infertility is a major task for the obstetrics and gynecology sector in Việt Nam.

Việt Nam is facing challenges keeping pace with other countries in the application of stem cell therapy, many doctors say.   

Việt Nam’s grassroots healthcare system is failing to win public trust, resulting in overcrowding at provincial-level hospitals and hampering efforts to ensure universal health coverage in the country.

A campaign promoting breastfeeding at the workplace, “Sixty minutes working as a mom”, was launched on Tuesday in HCM City.

National Assembly (NA) delegations collected over 2,000 opinions and petitions from citizens nationwide to submit to the fourth session of the 14th NA. All were transferred to the Government and relevant ministries and agencies for handling.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has suggested the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) share with Việt Nam experiences in building e-government and e-administration accumulated from its members such as Australia, Singapore and Japan.

 Strengthening supervision of social insurance funds is essential given the hike in management expenses in 2016 and 2017, legislators argued at the ongoing 24th session of the National Assembly Standing Committee in Hà Nội yesterday.

The northern port city of Hải Phòng started two key projects on Monday with a total investment of nearly VNĐ3 trillion (US$130.5 million) sourced from the city’s budget.

Bình Thuận Province People’s Committee asked Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc for a focal agency to address the problems posed by five thermal power plants at Vĩnh Tân Power Centre, the Vietnam News Agency reports.

An online gambling ring involving over VNĐ152 billion (US$6.6 million) was busted on Monday in Quế Võ District of northern Bắc Ninh province.

In the wake of allegations of sexual harassment against the popular singer Phạm Anh Khoa, initially disseminated via social media, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Việt Nam is dissolving its partnership with singer Khoa who had served as an activist on the prevention of violence against women and girls in the country.

The southern province of Bình Thuận’s Military Command deployed the first test of using drone on Monday afternoon to inspect forest management in Hàm Thạnh Commune in HàmThuận Nam District.

A road in the mountainous Vĩnh Phúc Province has remained under construction for the past six years despite receiving a fund of VNĐ9 billion (US$395,300).

Belgium and its Flanders region are keen to cooperate with Việt Nam and the capital city of Hà Nội to strengthen global partnership in the field of urbanisation.

A bomb weighing 225kg was discovered and removed from the Vân Đồn-Móng Cái Expressway site in Quảng Thành Commune, Hải Hà District, in the northern province of Quảng Ninh on Monday.

The 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14^th National Assembly (NA) opened in Hà Nội on Monday.

On May 9 police in Sa Đéc city accosted Nguyễn Văn Thư at a car wash in Ward 1 and seized notebooks with records of his loans, more than 400 deposit contracts and identity documents and 3,000 flyers and 700 leaflets for loans.