Việt Nam News

Electricity consumption has surged drastically in Hà Nội with the onset of the first heat wave, power company Electricity of Việt Nam (EVN) said.

The Investigation Police Agency, under the Ministry of Public Security, has prosecuted and put in temporary detention two former leaders of Bình Sơn Refining and Petrochemical Co. Ltd (BSR).

The Việt Nam Marine Department has proposed a project to the transport ministry on dredging the Cái Mép-Thị Vải marine passage.

The central province of Quảng Bình has plans to introduce free Wi-Fi coverage at 12 locations around the province, including the coastal and island localities.

While violence and harassment in the workplace has received increasing attention from the public, a convention by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) will serve as a useful tool enabling people to improve the prevention and response to violence and harassment at work.

The central city has asked the investor of the underdeveloped Eden Hotel project in Ngũ Hành Sơn district to dismantle illegal construction items before May 25.

The Japan-Việt Nam Friendship Association of Kawasaki has donated 200 bicycles to underprivileged children in the districts of Hòa Vang, Cẩm Lệ and Ngũ Hành Sơn of Đà Nẵng city every year since 2003.

In a business-as-usual scenario, world’s ocean could contain one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastic than fish [by weight].

Heavy rains and strong winds destroyed dozens of hectares of rice and maize crops in different districts in the northern mountainous province of Tuyên Quang.

HCM City agencies have taken measures to combat floods after heavy rains flooded several areas in the city on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Japan’s JICA lamented the slow payment of the Vietnamese Government to its official development assistance (ODA) projects’ contractors, saying they were becoming ‘exacerbated’.

HIV/AIDS patients in Đồng Nai Province will be treated at local health clinics to ensure they do not give up treatment, according to the province Department of Health.

Farmers in the central provinces of Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi have been struggling to sell enough watermelons to turn a profit, as the price of the farm produce sharply dropped from VNĐ7,000 ($0.3) per kilo last month to VNĐ1,000 ($0.04) or VNĐ1,200 ($0.05) per kilo in recent days.

An elderly woman was killed when a fire broke out near Vĩnh Tuy Bridge in Hà Nội early morning on Thursday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc underlined the need to focus resources on tackling climate change in the Mekong Delta region.

The incident rate of cardiac myxoma is from 0.2 to 0.3 per 1000 people. Meanwhile, symptoms of the disease are commonly vague, even the first symptom can be a stroke which may lead to death.

As many as 50 residents in HCM City’s District 2 aired their grievances at a meeting held yesterday to discuss land reclamation and site clearance compensation for households that must move to make way for continued construction of the Thủ Thiêm new urban area in the district.

Many private pre-schools in Hà Nội are open and operating illegally regardless of regular inspections conducted by the city’s education authority.